Eric Davis

3 weeks ago | worldbaseball.com | Chris Brown |Cincinnati Reds |Eric Davis |Hunter Greene

About 2 minutes reading time. NEW YORK (AP) — Darryl Strawberry says Major League Baseball needs to focus on developing and marketing the game within the inner cities in order for the percentage of Black players to rise substantially. “They have academies everywhere else, but they don’t have the attraction for what inner cities are all about,” Strawberry said Thursday at Citi Field prior to what the New York Mets marketed as their “Black Legacy Game” against the St. Louis Cardinals.