Clubhouse Conversations
#2: 3B DJ Gladney, Chicago White Sox
The Clubhouse Conversations Interview Series exists to celebrate and give more visibility to the professional Black baseball players in Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball, Black coaches/scouts/managers/front office members, and the Black writers who cover professional baseball. These interviews will solely be featured on Unculture and conduct the same purpose as my articles, which will move back over to my personal Medium page. Baseball would not be the global sport that it is without the participation of the African diaspora, and this interview series exists to celebrate and give visibility to Black people of all ethnicities and nationalities who have a hand in making baseball the global phenomenon that it is.
The featured guest of the second Clubhouse Conversations series is DJ Gladney, a nineteen-year-old third baseman in the Chicago White Sox organization from Chicago, Illinois. Gladney was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 16th round of the 2019 MLB Draft out of Illiana Christian High School in Lansing, Illinois. Gladney currently plays for the Chicago White Sox Low-A affiliate Kannapolis Cannon Ballers in the Low-A East League.
