A black baseball player has received an outpouring of support after receiving racist taunts from opposing players during a game. (Credit: Charles City High School) CHARLES CITY, Iowa - Jeremiah Chapman is a four-sport student-athlete at Charles City High School, but he was ready to give all of that up after hecklers hurled racist taunts at him during a June 27 baseball game.Chapman, 17, is the lone black player on the varsity baseball squad.Since the COVID-19 pandemic shortened the season, Saturday’s game at Waverly-Shell Rock High School was a doubleheader.Chapman said his team lost pretty soundly in the first game, but held a four-run lead in the nightcap when a group of Waverly fands seated in the outfield started heckling Charles City.