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The Decline In Baseball Participation Amongst African American Youth, Michael Mudrick
The Decline In Baseball Participation Amongst African American Youth, Michael Mudrick
Master's Theses
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The basis for this thesis was to study the decline in baseball participation amongst African American youth through the lens of social learning theory. This was done in conjunction with interviews with 10 young African American non-baseball players, ages 11-13, who resided in an urban setting in a northeastern city. Because of the paucity of African Americans in Major League Baseball today, social learning theory, a philosophy heavily predicated on the influence of role models, was seen …