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Article: WORLD SERIES INSIDER; WORLD SERIES - GAME 3: TAMPA BAY AT PHILADELPHIA; Working to reclaim lost ground; The star power on display in the World Series should help major league baseball's efforts to attract more African-American players, whose numbers have dropped in the past decade.(SPORTS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 25, 2008
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Byline: JOE CHRISTENSEN; STAFF WRITER
PHILADELPHIA - Torii Hunter has long felt Major League Baseball needed to market its African-American players more, especially with their numbers in steady decline.
Then along came this World Series.
The Philadelphia Phillies and Tampa Bay Rays feature several of the sport's top young African-American stars: Ryan Howard and Jimmy Rollins of the Phillies, and B.J. Upton, Carl Crawford and David Price of the Rays.
"That's marketing right there," said Hunter, the former Twins center fielder, who now plays for the Los Angeles Angels. "It doesn't get any better than that."
The series is ...