Tim Anderson is a baseball player. It’s how he makes a living for him and his family.
In this moment in history, he affirmed that indeed he is finding it difficult to try to care about baseball.
“I guess you could just say take care of what really matters,” he said during a conference call Monday afternoon. “I think this problem is bigger than baseball at the moment.”
Anderson, the reigning big league batting champ and the only Black American player on the White Sox roster, sees what’s happening across the country, watching the thousands of protesters demanding an end to police brutality against and the police killings of Black people in the wake of the death of George Floyd last week in Minneapolis.