- The thing that we love about baseball (dramatic tones) is its tradition.

(dramatic tones) The thing that has hurt baseball is its tradition.

(daring music) - [Reporter] Black American players have hovered around 7%.

That number has dipped.

- But we have less participation by African Americans in Major League Baseball today than since the time of Jackie Robinson.

There's something wrong with that.

- Our system in baseball is broken.

(dramatic tones) - All right, so here's a question for you.

Would you spend $15,000 or more on a teenager summer sport?

(cash register dings) ♪ Triple play, play, play, play ♪ - You know, they don't have the five and six pairs of shoes, they don't have the batting gloves, the wristbands; they have the bare minimum, and they go out there and play.

- This subject of blacks in baseball is always looked at as a negative connotation.

Looking back on American history, it isn't beautiful.

Sometimes you got to fight through it to see the beauty in it.

- [Reporter] Red's owner, Marge Schott, made a racist, derogatory comment toward African American players.

(tense tones) - Baseball still feels old, and if it feels old, then it feels white.

- Our Black kids don't have the support because we don't have Black coaches everywhere.

- The game is never going to change if you guys stop playing.

- If this same system would've been in place when Hank Aaron and Willie Mays came along, we'd have missed the best players in the game.

- We can talk about it all day long.

What are we going to do about it?

♪ Black to the bigs, to the bigs ♪ ♪ Black to the bigs ♪ ♪ Let's get black to the bigs, to the bigs, to the bigs ♪