{"id":3614,"date":"2017-02-06T20:52:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/hamerinstitute\/?p=3614"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:59:53","slug":"fences-african-americans-in-major-league-baseball-featuring-curtis-granderson-outfielder-with-the-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/2017\/02\/06\/fences-african-americans-in-major-league-baseball-featuring-curtis-granderson-outfielder-with-the-new-york-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"Fences: African Americans in Major League Baseball Featuring Curtis Granderson, Outfielder with the New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations, The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, and The Department of History and Philosophy present: <i>Fences: African Americans in Major League Baseball<\/i> featuring Curtis Granderson.<\/p>\n<p>Before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947, African-Americans had no choice but to play in the Negro Leagues. Because of this integration, one would think that African-Americans would naturally gravitate to baseball. That has not been the case. As of now, the percentage of African-Americans playing baseball is just below eight percent. The numbers did rise during the 1970s and 1980s. Since that time, the numbers have been on a steady decline. Curtis Granderson, outfielder for the New York Mets and poet laureate C. Liegh McInnis, will discuss this trend and other issues related to African American baseball players.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Thursday, February 9, 2017 at 6:00 pm the Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO at 1017 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3637\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3637 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event-663x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Granderson Event\" width=\"663\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event-663x1024.jpg 663w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event-768x1187.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/files\/2017\/02\/Granderson-Event.jpg 1056w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fannie Lou Hamer Institute @ COFO, The Institute for Social Justice and Race Relations, The Department of English and Modern Foreign Languages, and The Department of History and Philosophy present: Fences: African Americans in Major League Baseball featuring Curtis Granderson. Before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball in 1947, African-Americans had no choice but to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions\/3858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/cofo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}