Leo, who-—besides you and, possibly, a bunch of power-mad federal bureaucrats and race hustlers-— even cares about what races are or are not represented in professional?
Why SHOULD anyone care? I thought we all bought in to what Martin Luther King, Jr. said way back in the 60s.
I personally couldn’t care less if there is a massive increase or decrease in the number of blacks playing baseball. Numbers don’t particularly matter. I’m more interested in the reasons why there are fewer blacks because it isn’t racism keeping them from playing baseball. I’m seeking to offer a reason why blacks choose not to play baseball.
Actually it’s been getting discussed in MLB circles for a while. The lack of black players is a sign of the black fans. Nobody likes losing 10% of the population from their fan base, and it becomes a bigger problem when it is impacting the pipeline of quality players. No sport wants to see the pipeline diminish because that becomes a vicious cycle, when top athletes don’t want to play your sport quality of play diminishes, which reduces the fan base, which reduces the number of top players interested in your sport... Nobody wants to wind up on the “remember when” pile next to boxing.