No one from the Central African nation has ever played Major League Baseball. The young participants ... While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent ...

The steepest decline in African-American baseball players occurred ... an original research sample of approximately 600 current baseball players, 20 from each team, and used publicly available ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.

In the '74 Series there were 15 African-American players. Today there are 3. And the number of African-American baseball players on Major League Baseball teams stands around 8% – that's a huge ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.