Kaylum Graham was like a lot of future E.E. Smith High School athletes.
As a youth, he played many sports — baseball among them. But faced with tough choices entering high school, his passion for baseball waned.
“I felt there was a better chance for me to go to college playing basketball and football, so I stuck with the other two,” he said.
Those are among the common reasons given to explain a national decline in black athletes in baseball.
It’s been documented at the major league level, but it’s also evident in the high school ranks in Cumberland County. A Fayetteville Observer study reveals that only 40 of 152 (26 percent) varsity baseball players in Cumberland County are black. As a whole, 51.4 percent of Cumberland County students are black.
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