New Book Focuses on the Disappearance of Baseball in America's Inner Cities (2007-06-07)
What Happened to Little League Baseball in the Inner-City? examines the times in which we live and eras gone by, when inner-city parks in Chicago were filled with kids who were devoted to America's favorite pastime, baseball. In his impassioned book, author Mark O'Neal looks at the various social, cultural, racial and economic factors that have caused baseball to nearly vanish from inner-city communities. His book takes a close look at such disturbing factors as unemployment, drug use, gang violence and decay in the Black family structure.
