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Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities
... that the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program is a response to declining African American participation in baseball?
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IOUTemplate:Did you know nominations/Gustavo Parraguez and Template:Did you know nominations/Tim Samaras
Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self nominated at 00:46, 7 June 2013 (UTC).
The response took place decades ago, so it would sound better written in the past tense. I would suggest providing a citation for the year the organization was founded, and then saying "... program was founded in 1989 in response ..." Also "African American" should be hyphenated (see MOS:HYPHEN) since it is an adjective. QPQ is outstanding as well.—Bagumba (talk) 02:11, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
ALT1: ... that the Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities program was started in 1989 as a response to declining participation among African Americans in baseball?
- Hope you don't mind my making this a double. I just expanded John Young (baseball). I'll provide 2 QPQs. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:55, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that John Young founded Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities in 1989 as a response to declining participation among African Americans in baseball?
- ALT3: ... that John Young founded Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities in 1989 as a response to declining African-American participation in baseball?
It doesn't seem accurate based on the sources in the article that RBI was a response to declining participation. First of all, the numbers from your article state a drop from 1995 to 2013, so we can't conclude that a 1986 program years earlier was a response to that decline. The LA Times article only says Young pointed to a high number drafted from 4-year colleges, and a low percentage of blacks in four-year colleges. It doesnt corroborate that there was definitively a drop in participation among blacks. My suggestion is to either find additional sources that support the hook, or cleanup the article and come up with a different hook.—Bagumba (talk) 02:52, 9 June 2013 (UTC)