color code
while the Yankees and Angels play today i was thinking that the Angels have a high number of non-Hispanic black players with guys like Chone Figgins, Garret Anderson, Howie Kendrick, Gary Matthews, Jr and Reggie Willits. then they show Reggie Willits and he's white. this isn't the first time i've made this mistake with him, and it might not be the last. "Reggie Willits" just sounds like a black guy - can that be considered racial profiling? i think he definitely qualifies as one of the "Reggie Cleveland All-Stars". Brandon Larson is another guy that i thought was black for a long time as well, and if i had been cognizant during the 70s, then Cecil Upshaw probably would have been right there as well. of course it works both ways with guys like Troy O'Leary (or Howie Kendrick for that matter).
this reminds me of a fun game that Listmaker, Balgavy, ec and i played on the way to our fantasy baseball draft in March. Listmaker would call out a name at random from the Baseball America Prospect Handbook and then we had to guess whether they were black or white. it was pretty hard, though i think Balgavy only missed 1 or 2 total. but we were all thrown off when Joba Chamberlain came up. he's a recent Yankees draftee from the University of Nebraska. and he's a Native American. we didn't see that one coming (and in all honesty, he looks white).
