Baseball looks for its next generation of urban legends
LA TimesOne of the keys to baseball’s future lies in Compton, on fields so close to the 91 Freeway that the rumble of trucks and whoosh of traffic are part of the ambience. It lies in the hands of the 36 young men who gathered there last week for the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy’s first high school showcase and displayed their talents for more than 130 scouts. Baseball “in the inner city, it doesn’t have a lot of popularity, but I think it’s getting it back,” he said. “I think a lot of it is most minorities play basketball and football because it’s the easy thing to go do,” Loney said. I’d come home, do my homework, and then it was my chance to go out and play the game I loved,” said Garciaparra, whose hitting lessons found a rapt audience Wednesday.
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