Strawberry says MLB needs to focus on developing and marketing the game within the inner cities
'They have academies everywhere else, but they don't have the attraction for what inner cities are all about,' Strawberry said Thursday at Citi Field prior to what the New York Mets marketed as their 'Black Legacy Game' against the St. Louis Cardinals. 'That's where we played — me and Eric Davis, Chris Brown, all of us came from the inner city and inner city baseball was organized.'
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