Curtis Granderson noticed about 100 cars lined up as early as 90 minutes before The Players Alliance started to distribute boxes and bags of baseball equipment, essential goods and COVID-19 supplies at a West Pullman strip mall.
“It shows where the need is,” said Granderson, president of the TPA, a group of 143 current and formermajor-league players committed to form fair systems in an effort to alter the path of diversity in baseball.
The Players Alliance, formed shortly after the George Floyd killing on May 25, made two of its four weekend stops Saturday on the South Side as part of its 32-city tour in Black communities across the country with Pull Up Neighbor, a Black-owned community response team.