PHILADELPHIA — Scott Bandura spent his childhood playing on a predominantly Black baseball team, but that did not make him naive enough to think the Anderson Monarchs were the norm. The team from South Philadelphia often stood out whenever it left its home field behind the rec center at 18th and Fitzwater Streets.
“We would go to these tournaments and see all these other teams and we were obviously different,” Bandura said.
Even that experience was not enough to prepare Bandura for the lack of players who looked like him as his career climbed.
