Posted on 04/15/2024 6:59:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson and his pioneering contributions to the game, I can’t help but think about the fact that the league is reporting a historically low number of Black American players in its ranks: only 6%.
I think this is a teachable moment at a time when diversity efforts across various arenas (no pun intended) have come under attack. Major League Baseball, unfortunately, is a prime example of what it looks like to talk the talk without always walking the walk.
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Europe’s athletic is much more comprehensive than America. The one flaw, I think of the American system, is that those in charge of the system are more concerned with short term benefits and not the long-term benefits by cultivating the young in athletics or education or any other endeavour.
You have to hit the ground running in America, but you are left to your own devices how to become qualified in order to hit the ground running. If you don’t have the parents that had the skills to cultivate your interests, you’re basically hooped in America.
I think the professional count is counting the WHL, the level that is just below NHL, who are mostly farm teams for the NHL.
I feel sooooooo victimized!
Several schools by us have dropped baseball along with wrestling in part due to diminishing interest, in part to offer girl’s soccer or girl’s volleyball etc.....
Baseball hasn’t been big in a long time.
Wrestling OTOH was represented quite a bit in the states
I’ve learned since that a lot of the state universities have dropped wrestling as well. It is a sport that is clearlyu being taken out in the name of equality.
Also, they list “Black” players like Adolis Garcia and Jose LeCerk as Hispanic. The guy is as black as the Ace of Spades.
I thought that might be the case.
Thx for the clarification.
Professional Sports are the ultimate meritocracy. No one wants to watch a subpar player. If you’re good, you play. Period. Skin color doesn’t matter.
I started watching the Royals again now that I’m not working. I use to be addicted to baseball. When not watching KC play, I’m watching The Savannah Bananas. So fun.
US Olympics team is going to get embarrassed. The players don’t even know how NOT to travel or carry the ball. Plus the white guys are better now than the blacks. Hell Steph Curry is more white than black and he is the best shooter in the world from 3 point line.
Garbage. What about the NBA?
Apparently, MSNBC has not reviewed many TV commercials lately. They are getting to look like the NBA. Tawana is now playing Buffy, the suburban mom. No need to get piggy. Baseball is not the NBA. They’re going to have to beat out a lot of excellent short Dominican and Venezuelans Latino guys who are there because they are really good at the game to horn in as the preferred POC. But, hey, they can always play a baseball player on a TV commercial.
whites and chinese and filipinos are disproportunately represented in major league sports, oh and women.
12.7 in the US
That’s great to read.
Thx for sharing.
Baseball is an awesome game.
I love that team’s name.
Warning to others-do not search for pics of the Savannah Bananas with safe search turned off.
they don’t play baseball in da hood...
I just told my wife that I want a Bananas jersey for my BDay. I’ll be thinking of you watching them if I ever wear it.
There was an article about this in our local paper this morning. My husband observed that they never counted the Afro Caribbean players. They only counted the African-American players. If you only do that, yes, there are few African-American baseball players. Of course it is possible that the Afro- Caribbean baseball players did not want to be considered or counted in this pity party. They do not necessarily respect African-Americans who are resentful or self pitying. Those Afro Caribbean people, born and raised in countries much poorer and less democratic than America, do not feel sorry for themselves. They proudly stand on their own efforts.
The reduction of black and white players in the mlb is directly related to financial and quick entry of latin players. And now with the growth of asian players and the clubs spending so much on latin entries the whites and blacks are not as numerous.
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You forgot Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe, Monte Irvin, Satchel Page, Minnie Minoso, Larry Doby, Dan Bankhead and at least 10 others!
BOTH!
OMG!!! When was there a time when young black atheletes did not prefer Basketball or Football over baseball??? What are the DEI folks going to do now, go out and browbeat some young black atheletes for not choosing baseball???
The DEI folks now nothing about human nature. They mistakenly think everyone of different demographic groups should always share a proportionare interest in every kind of job, profession, career, and if that is not what the statistics show then they think something MUST be wrong with the people who are choosing people for jobs, professions, career paths. They, the DEI folks are the only thing that is wrong.
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