ARTICLE FROM toriihunterproject.com (Full story click here)

P.S. In the media, too many times when it comes to minorities in the sports world, we hear about negative stories. And not about positive ones and positive people like baseball player Torii Hunter of the Angels.

Hunter is on a mission to get young inner city youth interested in baseball. The amount of African Americans playing baseball in the majors is down to 8% to 9%. This is alarming.

A few teams in the majors have zero African Americans on the team. Here in Seattle, the only African American on the Mariners is Ken Griffey Jr.

It seems young African American kids turn to basketball and football at around 12 or 13. They see Kobe and LeBron and Shaq and KG and D-Wade and Barkley on commercials and NFL players like Reggie Bush and others too but see ZERO African Americans besides Derek Jeter and that’s it.

Torii and NY Yankee pitcher CeCe Sabithia are working hard to say baseball is a great sport. And go to schools and have camps for inner city kids.

We need more Torii Hunters. And maybe soon their will be more Ryan Howard, Orlando Hudson and PJ Upton starring in MLB. Gordon Curvey

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