Posted on 04/01/2021 5:12:28 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
Seventy-four years ago, in 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers signed Major League Baseball’s first African American player in the modern era: Jackie Roosevelt Robinson. This historic moment is celebrated as the formal “integration” of Major League Baseball (MLB). For three decades after Robinson broke the “color line,” there was a steady increase in American-born Black players taking the field. But this year, on opening day, 2021, just 7% of players on MLB rosters are American-born Black athletes.
What has happened to the Black American baseball player?
---snip--- At the heart of the matter is money. MLB invests tremendous financial resources into building the human, social, and cultural capital of players born outside the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America that it does not invest in low-income Black (and white) players in the United States
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“Basketball Jones”
Hispanics displaced them, as is happening in many fields of employment.
No baseball fields in the hood.
not sure... i can say growing up in texas none of the blacks guys in my area had an interest in baseball at all, exclusively football and basketball... just wasn’t a part of their culture.
No swimming pools either.
Because, up until now, baseball hired the best man for the job. I expect that will give way to the question “Why are there no transgender lesbian midgets in MLB”?
The left had never found anything they don’t like.
Blacks are only like 13% of the population anyway so 7% of MLB players being black doesn’t seem all that weird. How come there are so few female MLB players? hmmm sexist much?
How many should there be?
Maybe I’ll move to a boat.
What you said is not politically correct, but it appears to be biologically and culturally correct.
Why are there so few white players in the NBA and NFL?
Because baseball is boring!
Why are there so few black hockey players and swimmers?
This racist woke shiite is ridiculous.
It must be ridiculed every time it rears its stupid head.
The top half of the FR comments are far more worth reading than the article (which is by a Gender Studies prof just in case any of you are thinking of wasting your time).
1. Young black Americans have been migrating to basketball and football as their preferred sports since the 1970s.
2. Among Americans, the sport is being dominated by kids from wealthy families that can afford the cost of baseball academies and private coaching from a young age. It's no different than soccer and ice hockey now.
Why are there so few non-blacks in the NBA? Gotta be racism!
Who gives a shxt? Why do people care? Why is this “someone’s” issue?
If you like the game watch it.. If you don’t STFU.
it’s that damn simple.
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