Coach Deion Sanders Says ‘They Priced Us Out’ As He Explains Why Black Fathers Are Putting Their Sons In Football Instead Of Baseball

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Coach Deion Sanders Says ‘They Priced Us Out’ As He Explains Why Black Fathers Are Putting Their Sons In Football Instead Of Baseball

Coach Deion Sanders has come to a realization about why Black young men aren’t put in baseball. 

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Recently, Deion Sanders, 54, explained why Black fathers aren’t enrolling their sons in baseball. Deion Sanders said:

“Black fathers are not pushing they kids towards baseball.”

Sanders explained:

 So when the Black father wants to play with his son he puts in his hands what he’s accustomed to. What he wants, the direction where he wants him to go. Baseball is not the option.”

Sanders continued:

“Back when I was coming up we had a lot of African Americans in major league baseball. Now that’s not the thing because they priced us out as well. Because like when you played baseball little leagues it was cool. Probably about $150 to register. To play on a select team now it’s at least two grand, $2,500. So kids ain’t playing, they can’t afford it, they priced us out.”

The head football coach at Jackson State added:

“It’s a problem. Major league baseball need to have resolution because that’s a problem. That’s the reason we don’t play, along with African American fathers ain’t never play, so they not pushing us to that sport and that’s the best sport when it talks to benefits, when it talks to salary, when it talks to longevity. That’s the best sport.” 

Before Sanders became “Coach Prime” at Jackson State University, he was one of the best professional athletes in the late 1980s and 1990s. Sanders played in the NFL as a lockdown defender and was also successful in the MLB diamond as well.

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