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Frank Thomas wants MLB to take inner city initiative

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CSN Staff

A few days after comedian Chris Rock offered his take on baseball's decline in black and, by extension, youth culture on HBO's "Real Sports," White Sox Hall of Famer Frank Thomas offered a response -- and how that decline can be reversed.

Thomas, who said he met Rock in the early 1990's, addressed the subject on Fox Sports 1's "America's Pregame" on Thursday.

"I think he hit the nail on the head," Thomas said. "I came into the league in 1990 and there were four or five black players on every team.