Talking with Buck: Part 2

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[...] the real baseball fans, can you play?" His concern about the lack of Africans-Americans in baseball and his view of how it happened: "Of course, but we're changing that now because of the RBI (Reviving Baseball in the Inner City) program and they're bringing baseball back in the inner city. " "What happened was the Black kid started taking over basketball, taking over football, so they wanted a spot for the white kid, so they moved baseball out of the inner city and they put up basketball courts in the inner city so kids can shoot the baskets and they can shoot baskets all night long if they wanted to.

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Talking with Buck: Part 2

PHILADELPHIA (BASN)-When I was a sports-writer/colunmist with the Philadelphia Tribune back in 2005, I wrote a series of articles on the plight of African-Americans in baseball.

One of the stories that I wrote focused on the impact that form...

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