Nobody asked him. The reason is the color of his skin. That's why so much was made of McGwire's efforts and so little of Sosa's. Coleman, baseball's highest-ranking minority official, was simply mouthing the company line as he always does. He knew, deep down, that most whites were rooting for big Mac and most blacks were rooting for him.
Baseball is no different than life.
You back your own kind. So all we can do now is wait until next year. Richard G. Carter, a freelance writer, is a former columnist with The Milwaukee Journal and the New York Daily News.