... baseball remains predominantly white. The same could be said about players on the field. ... the number of African-American players in the major leagues peaked in the early 1980s, when nearly one in every five players was black. The two teams in this year’s College World Series may be emblematic. There are four African-Americans on Vanderbilt’s team. Based on a glance of photos in its press kit, the University of Virginia baseball team has just one African-American among its 32 players. Damani Leech, the first African-American to oversee college baseball’s championship se...