Clubhouse Conversations
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 throughout the African diaspora who have a hand in making baseball the global phenomenon that it is.
This is the fifth Clubhouse Conversations interview in a series that is produced and hosted by Unculture’s Senior Baseball Contributor Patrick Ellington Jr. This episode features Mahki Backstrom, a 19-year-old first baseman in the Atlanta Braves organization from Los Angeles, California. Backstrom was drafted by the Braves out of Junipero Serra High School in the 18th round(547th overall) of the 2019 MLB Draft. Backstrom has not been assigned to a Braves MiLB affiliate for the 2021 Minor League Baseball season yet.
