It shouldn’t be so easy to get one-third of all of the African-American general managers in the history of Major League Baseball on one panel, but the White Sox did it with room to spare Thursday.
Featured on a panel that touched on the Negro Leagues, the White Sox's thriving Amateur City Elite (ACE) program and essentially the state of African-Americans in baseball, White Sox executive vice president Kenny Williams appeared with former Angels general manager Tony Reagins, the third and fourth black general managers in baseball history.
Speaking to an audience of inner-city high school baseball All-Stars in the park for the 10th annual Double Duty Classic, Williams introduced Reagins as the man who “brought Mike Trout into the big leagues,” but it was a line of praise his friend fired back to him that got Williams thinking.