welcome to education in our community this show is about lifelong learning teaching and mentoring and ongoing process today we are privileged to have as our guest a group of people who are working with a national organization called the metropolitan junior baseball league in j b l and the first person i'd like to introduce is mr brant t ball the one with the red tie  he is a son the son and a coach and a commissioner with the metropolitan junior baseball league which is a national organization and next to him is mr steve mc mcalinden is his father and he is a coach and a commissioner as well with him j b ill and then with the team cully red outfit on with is on the team which is by the name of team collie is mr tyrone bowie he is a youth but he's also a college student and he's in the league as i understand it or he pardon that is correct and the topic that we're addressing today is the black baseball report mr t bo wrote a very extensive report about all of the opportunities for the black baseball league in the united states of america could you share with us that report what you included in that report well what i included in our report is that i want to show a lot  misnomer that african americans are do not want to play baseball but i want to shoulder the numbers and the facts that we're we are playing and discovery with these facts across united states in division one baseball was that it right now currently in the pac twelve there are only nine african americans there playing baseball in two thousand and twelve and it's just very shocking to me too when i did this recent research so the shocking part of it is that there were so few is that what you say there  so few of us playing so have you across the united states but the interest is there the interest is there yes so how do you know that the interest is there while the interest that i know of is that i coach my team team calley and with the metropolitan area baseball league we have over fifty teams in this leak from young men ranging from five to six year olds to nineteen year olds and that's showing on a small scale in richmond virginia we had a world series as past year three games to make it to the playoffs and we're tyrone's discuss we played a team from bridgeport connecticut which their representatives r b i baseball major league baseball and a second team was from detroit team detroit a team  is team kelly what does that stand for could you tell us mister yeah baseball team that just got we been around for a long period of time about a generation now and but somebody will give them a look to see and his last term and prove the point their coach of the moment from all over what about this kid what about songs or what about ok semi information which is what we want we want them to get interested in our players because we know our players can help make their team and we can solve a point that we are team chali and we can help anything that we need to help so then do you have difficulty finding the teams to bo why did you start and leak in your city or the reason why a started the league was really to help the youth that i saw that were really been overlooked by certain colleges throughout the like i said in the black face will report that they need it to be a need to be a bridge for some to colleges in the south in a grambling state and st augustine's college in north carolina and i saw that the young men here in california have the skills to play at those they can help those schools by a number one getting an education and playing quality baseball if the coaches can understand that we're just the same and maybe look a little different the fabric may look a little different here in california compared to the south with the historical presence of the baseball players come out of the league jimmy rollins play for the philadelphia phillies i saw the heart of a line inside of him which taught me that if the hard work and pursuit precision you can be a great person and a great baseball player learned from my father running the organization teaching me certain skills about being a manager and how we played in west oakland he went back to those who are from within have a voice took his time off work as and coach baseball and so from there i had the torch burning inside of me and i knew i had to go to college become a better person and give back if i don't make it to the pros i always had a burning desire when i was young and that's why i  the m j below here because i was one of those players also the baseball player in oakland so how did you come up with any team kelly well it occurred back in we our first meeting in two thousand and nine and  oakland fraternity house kappa alpha psi fraternity house and i want the young people to take ownership i want them to be the owners of this this is a for children as a for young men that takes a i created team calley they take ownership because once they get one agree they feel they get another agree and the whole thing is about them becoming motivated within themselves start doing things they can do because they can go out and do whatever it is they wish they want to do they'll come back to help johnny bobby and susie and that's what we want them to do because every time you help one they help another and they help another and that's what we have to do in our community because art really can be a very great community  help each other within the community so then you started out as a coach and then you became a commissioner i started out as a coach coach for a long time then she became a commission  more but going to a lot times are seen now by the game to bring them in so you're saying it's going to take a long time yes because first of all you have to make sure they haven't of kids and there's a lot of coming and they start coming we can start teaching them it may even want to be a part of what we're doing so when you say four years in a row what do you mean for years that we have well i mean we've been successful four years in a row where we have brought back to second place titles and last year in two thousand and eleven we brought back the first place title last year in orlando florida yes i guess orlando monarch's a team sponsored by ricky weeks and so it's been successful i want these young people like tyrone and always that we care about him and we want him to succeed in baseball whether it's major league baseball for the chicago white sox or sampson's go giants but we also want to succeed in life because and it's just you know not just about you have to have an approach to the plate can't just be just you can't just i mean there's always like where you could just be a test of pain in the next play it's all there's all little stuff a little part of the game that that's what's important to them that's interesting because i was thinking about the attraction that young people have for going into sports and then to do the work that goes with it in terms of the academic work  it sounds like it works it works for me when i was a former college football player and you have to have a structure and a plan you have to academics in the day and you have to have a organized plan when you go football practice and go back into the library and do some homework and that's how you make it through having been organized well that's great because i know that they were saying maybe years ago that they had to make sure that the students who were in sports were actually academically doing their work as well yes very important you know it sounds like you've covered that so when does your baseball program begin well right now we're taking a two week break but it began in september the first of week of september take a two week break yes  because we have to compete against teams other players play for us a lot of travel to and those travel teams pick up players in the fall and the biggest thing about our team is the cost search teams  four thousand dollars plus paying additional trainers a thousand dollars a month with us we want to defer to our cost at charging kids versus a thousand or twelve hundred dollars but we're looking at trying but we have many businesses in the community that to know who's coming on a term and within the last week and interesting dr can't think where we did it was in three weeks we put this team together as tyrone said we're one practice you put the team together in three weeks and we went to the championship which is very phenomenal because a lot of teams have been playing all summer long and you've you had to put this one together in three weeks ago we didn't know we were going and where did you find the young people under every rock from you but the sacramento next year but we are young men from sacramento so they will call their friends and say well look you know somebody and sort of sacramento players call about four or five guys who have a pitcher named josh being and a couple of his buddies from his high school came and and his buddy best friend bradley  yes and we want these young people to leave a legacy of my father's left a legacy for me to carry the torch on and the process of we're going to have fields in education is the name the key component of training that when they go off to sometimes it's time to make all the little pieces fit together but once it does is there we know we are playing and the more we win the more you play is the more you play the more we get to make it that the reality because these players need it and the west coast can win players of the east coast east coast in many ways the west coast we can be an integral part in this so you said that i think vision here that says people who watch the show might want to reach each one of you and talk with you about this opportunity to be a part of this vision and to be a part of the reality participate in call my number twenty four seven all right and they can get in contact with me any day any time email me call me night or day because it's important that our community supports this or a program because it's for their own misnomers many people watch metropolitan baseball league because mr forster the head of our league currently the son of dr forster was discriminated against by lowly he was discriminated he was not i had the opportunity to play like tyrone at all and it really brought