In the last three seasons combined, the baseball team whose uniform was once worn by the most important baseball player ever has gone 2-55 while being outscored, 635-96.
The facilities are unsightly. The players are inexperienced and outmatched. The sport's popularity in the neighborhood is nonexistent. The daily embarrassments can be brutal.
"It's kind of hard to walk through school and say, 'Hey, we got beat 28-0,'" said freshman shortstop and pitcher Valente Vera.
All of which leads to the most sobering of truths expressed by Galvan one afternoon as he looks back across the street toward the main Muir building where a photo of a smiling Jackie Robinson, class of '36, hangs proudly in the main hallway.
"The way things are, if he went to John Muir today, Jackie Robinson probably wouldn't be playing baseball," he said.
Jackie Robinson's high school team is struggling; will Dodgers help?
