Jackie's Dodgers

During the 60 year anniversary season of Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's color barrier Samori Benjamin spoke with CNN's Larry King Live and several Los Angeles Dodgers about Jackie Robinson. King grew up watching Jackie in Brooklyn as a Dodgers fan.

Jackie Robinson West LL, an all black team from Chicago, made it to the Little League World Series in 2014. At the time the Chicago White Sox did not have one black American kid on their roster. Samori speaks with White Sox players on why they believe there are so few blacks in baseball. today

In the summer of 2014 an All black baseball team from Chicago made the Little League World Series. Samori Benjamin spoke with the Chicago Cubs and long time Major Leaguer Curtis Granderson, who is from Chicago, about the team and about the decline of blacks in baseball. 

Samori Benjamin speaks with a few black American former Major League ball players who played in the Little League World Series in Williamsport, PA.

Jimmy Rollins and Ryan Howard each won the National League MVP award. Howard in won the award in 2006 and Rollins won the award in 2007. Samori Benjamin speaks with both of them about the decline of blacks in blacks and their efforts to get black youth interested in the sport.

Samori Benjamin speaks with the scholars of the Jackie Robinson Foundation on the 75 year anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier.

In 2007 Barry Bonds was chasing Hank Aaron's all-time career home run record and the cloud of his alleged steroids use made Bonds a polarizing figure.

In 2013. 1986 New York Mets World Champion Mookie Wilson managed the the United States roster at the Futures Game during All-Star weekend in New York at Citi Field.  This story is on Wilson and the African-American ball players who played under him in that game.

During the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, the last year of the stadium, Ernie Banks, Dave Winfield, Ozzie Smith, Frank Robinson, Reggie Smith, and Mickey Rivers speaks with Samori Benjamin about the decline of the African-American ball player in MLB.

This report features Samori Benjamin speaking with Ernie Banks, Joe Morgan, Don Baylor and Milton Bradley at the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium regarding the home run derby, where there were no black or latin participants.

Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Ernie Banks speak with Samori Benjamin about All-Star past.  Former Yankee Mickey Rivers from the 1977 & 1978 championship teams speaks with Samori about the Stadium which was in its last year and the impact George Steinbrenner had on his career.

In June 2008 Samori Benjamin did this report on Ken Griffey Jr. the morning after he hit his 600th career home run. This report features Ken Griffey Jr. and goes into the decline of the African American ball player in MLB, and the impact that Griffey Jr. had on the black community. 

Dwight Gooden, Gary Sheffield, and Lloyd McClendon speak with Samori Benjamin about their experiences to the Little League World Series. McClendon was part of the first all black team to make it to Williamsport.

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