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...Baseball Center, a national landmark that also houses the Baltimore Orioles Museum and the Maryland Baseball Hall of Fame. You might also venture over to the Ripken Museum, in nearby Aberdeen, Md., which has pictures and memorabilia documenting the Ripken baseball dynasty. Besides baseball, Baltimore has its magnificent Inner Harbor, the National Aquarium, Maryland Science Center and the B. & O. Railroad Museum...
...sports-talk radio. A few urgent topics--such as how the millions of dollars earned by black and Latino pro athletes can be converted into durable economic development for their communities--were briefly touched upon. But most of the exchange was, well, inside baseball--so narrowly focused on the inner workings of big-league college and professional sports that any lessons for the larger society were left unclear. How, for example, increasing the number of white cornerbacks in the National Football League will improve race relations quite frankly beats the hell out of me. What we need...
Overlooked in last week's discussion, for example, were the astronomical odds against even a gifted athlete's making it to the major leagues. Far more important than the shortage of black and Latino professional coaches and general managers is the huge surplus of inner-city youngsters who don't think they have to hit the books so long as they can crash the boards, or the opposing quarterback. That self-destructive attitude gets reinforced every time a high school sports star gets special treatment over an A-student classmate; every time a multimillionaire pro like Golden State Warriors guard...
Feeling comfortably safe to move aroundCambridge with ease takes time, but inner-citystudents can skip the learning curve. When askedabout his home, a working-class neighborhood whereIrish Catholic families live alongside Vietnamese,African American, Haitian and Cape Verdean ones,Austin's reply resounds with the sarcasm ofstreet-savvy, "Have you ever seen the eveningnews...
Austin's amazement at the sheltered life manyundergrads lead before arriving in the Square isnot unusual. In fact, other inner-city nativesdescribe similar reactions. Khentov admits thatunconsciously upon arriving at "peaceful andquiet" Harvard, he automatically had a common bondwith other inner-city natives like Austin, who hassince become a close friend...