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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Curtis&amp;nbsp;Granderson&amp;nbsp;is not the only person concerned about the declining number of black baseball players and fans. During a segment on&amp;nbsp;HBO's&amp;nbsp;&lt;em &gt;Real Sports&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Tuesday night, comedian Chris Rock lamented about how baseball has lost popularity among black people.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\"I don't care about any of this as a black guy, I care about this as a baseball fan,\" Rock said. \"We don't really need baseball, but baseball needs us.\"\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;From the Vault:&amp;nbsp;VERDUCCI:&amp;nbsp;The black baseball player is vanishing&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the Huffington Post, 19% of MLB players in 1986 were African Americans, a number that is down to 7.8% in 2015.&amp;nbsp;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;\u2022&amp;nbsp;JAFFE:&amp;nbsp;Dodgers, and baseball, win in Jackie Robinson's debut&lt;/strong&gt;\r\n\r\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;- Dan Gartland&lt;/em&gt;\r\n&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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