ABSTRACT
On the baseball field the author's dad was his little league coach. But when he was eight years old, he cut him from his team, saying he had a bad attitude. Paul Richards, the Braves general manager at that time, called the author mom and him up to his room. He had Elgin Baylor, who played with the Lakers. Nate Thurman played with the Golden State Warriors, which were then the San Francisco Warriors. As Morgan suggests, city kids are not playing baseball nearly as much. Part of it is economics, and a lot of the money is going to build talent in Latin America, where you can sign kids for very little. That is part of it, and the rest of it is that we might not want to face the truth about certain racial and economic realities, because you are not going to be very popular saying it.
