We have talked a great deal about inner city baseball, the hows and why's of the decline of baseball there...
Here is a success story that was in the SF chronicle today...
quote:The Royals were born three years ago when a teenaged neighbor died in the arms of Roscoe Bryant after a drive-by shooting on 29th Street, in Oakland's notorious Ghost Town neighborhood....
It's defniately worth reading...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/06/SPH7RDFQS2.DTL
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