Chris Rock’s brilliantly funny reasons Blacks don’t play baseball (video)

 

Comedian-actor-producer Chris Rock was at his jocular best when he enumerated the many reasons why black participation in the game of baseball has greatly diminished from its peak of approximately 32 percent African Americans in Major League Baseball in the mid-1970s.

Baseball brass and sports pundits have been bemoaning the diminishing number of Blacks in baseball for several years now, but they have yet to come up with concrete reasons, much less viable solutions. But Rock has a few theories he’s willing to share.

Despite coming from a comedic bent, Rock is dead on in some of his assessments. Take a look at his guest appearance on HBO’s Emmy award-winning “Real Sports” and see what you think (warning: graphic language):

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