Comments on: Hewitt’s Tree Grew In Brooklyn

By: phan_in_babylon

phan_in_babylon — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:46:20 +0000

as a former resident of crown heights (even now, i’m just a block from the border), i’m glad to see someone in the philly-area press get the kid’s home right. on draft day everyone had been reporting that he was from the bronx.

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:03:57 +0000

Very, very rare. Speaking of having black players, I had a friend that went up to Shea stadium for a Mets game and he was black, and they got called a word I would rather not say by some white Mets fans, and they got in a fight with them. I was on MLB’s message board, and the Mets fans were backing up Willie’s firing and saying they weren’t classless and that the Phillies fans are for throwing batteries. So I told that story to them, and they’re trying to say that it was totally okay for the Mets fans to call my black friends the word I would rather not say. How fucked up is that?!?!

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:38:18 +0000

Not only do the Phillies have two of the biggest African American stars in baseball, their roster seems to have a larger share of American-born players of any race than most clubs’.
The 25-man roster includes just four foreign-born players (Ruiz, FÃ©liz, Romero, and Taguchi).
And on June 10, the starting nine were all American-born (Myers-Coste-Howard-Utley-Dobbs-Rollins-Burrell-Victorino-Jenkins).
How rare is that in today’s major leagues?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:22:20 +0000

I am a big supporter of that. There are less and less African American baseball players these days, and it’s nice to see some more starting to play, and the Phillies signing them.