“It brings awareness to what’s going on in the world right now,” Kemp said. “There’s just more to life than baseball. This is something that we’ve been doing for a very long time and something that we love to do. But I think everybody just came to an agreement today that this is just not one of the times where they felt right playing the game.”
The Players Alliance is a group of over 100 Black current and former baseball players, and on Thursday they announced collectively that they would be donating their salaries from the games on August 27 and 28 in honor of Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball.