Michele Meyer-Shipp doesn't have to travel far to realize the challenge of growing the sport of baseball in the Black community.
She just sits down at the dinner table. Meyer-Shipp, who is Major League Baseball's chief people and culture officer, has three sons who love sports.
They know all about some of baseball's Black legends like Hank Aaron, the sport's one-time home run king who recently died at age 86.
But today's Black baseball stars? Not so much. “When I listen to my boys talk about sports, they're always talking about the Black football player.