Blacks are 12% of the population. Some % of them will be great athletes. lack athletes are overrepresented in basketball, football, running. They are underrepresented in golf, swimming, hockey. Black athletes choose their sport, and as they overwhelmingly pick basketball and football, they are bound to be underrepresented in other sports. Baseball would happily take all the Bo Jacksons and Deion Sanders out there.
You are correct. Man I loved watching Bo Jackson play. It was alwayso fun.
They are underrepresented in hockey.
My dad used to say that was because everyone on the ice has a stick.
Back in the 80s, I went to a hockey game with a black friend. He told me point blank that black people will not follow hockey because they see no black faces on the ice. In private we spoke deeper and he told me blacks would rarely idolize a white athlete if ever that it was part of the black community to only support their own kind.
Since then, I noticed that in large crowded areas where people — especially men — tend to wear jerseys of athletes, few blacks will don the name of a white man. Even in places like New England with Tom Brady or Miami when Dan Marino was “the man” or anywhere else my travels took me, blacks rarely wore the names of white athletes.
When I was a kid, I was a fan of the Big Red Machine. It didn’t matter if it was Morgan, Bench, Rose, Perez, Foster, Griffey, I liked them as little boys often do with the admiration of athletes. That was then. I stopped watching most sports some time in the mid-90s. Other things entertained and enlightened, Hopefully the majority of Americans will see through these athletes.
I watch a lot of symphony orchestra and opera recordings, and I almost never see blacks in any orchestra. I see some black opera singers, but pretty much no blacks in orchestras. They obviously do not choose to study music and become proficient enough to join an orchestra. Only a matter of time before we hear they are under-represented in that.
Russell Wilson, Jameis Winston, Colin Kaepernick, Senquez Goldon, and Golden Tate are among black players who could have gone pro baseball.