Percentage of black baseball players drops again

AP Sports ^ | 042111 | RONALD BLUM

[Artemis Webb]

NEW YORK (AP)—The percentage of black players in the major leagues dropped again on opening day this year even as the sport again received a top overall grade for racial diversity.

Baseball’s grade for gender hiring declined slightly, according to the annual study released Thursday by Richard Lapchick’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.

Baseball received an A for racial diversity in hiring, the same grade as last year, and a B-minus for gender, down from a B. Its overall grade remained a B-plus.

“A one-year difference like this must be seen with the perspective of the overall pattern baseball has been going in,” he said during a telephone interview with The Associated Press. “If it t happened two or three years in a row, it would be different.”

The percentage of black players dropped to 8.5 percent on opening day this year, down from 10 percent at the start of last season and its lowest level since 2007. It was 17 percent when Lapchick began tracking the figure in 1990.

The percentage of Latino players dropped from 28.4 percent to 27 percent— baseball’s lowest since 1999’s 26 percent.

[Clemenza]

Most Dominicans are of African ancestry. Are these black activists so stupid as not to notice? Just because your last name is Bonilla or Alou doesn’t make you any less black.

[octex]

This Ron Blum is an idiot! Affirmitive Action rules don’t apply when multi-millions are paid to gather the best athletes to any given team in order to provide the best chance of garnering attendance and making a profit in the traditional, capitalistic way that has made the US great.

Blum is hung up on racism. Sure, there are only a few Asians in MLB, but there are many more players from hispanic background and THEY are enumerated as WHITE (Caucasion) even by the US Census Bureau because of there European roots. Hispanic is not a race, but an ethnicity.

Therefore, I suppose that Blum’s data regarding numbers of Blacks (Negroes) playing in the MLB are probably even lower when the Hispanic players are counted as White.

Just a small rant on my part. I believe the issues these so-called “journalists” bring up regarding race are just done to stir up emotions and fill their required column quotas. The subject matter is tantamount to a Jackson or Sharpton screed about how racist everyone is against Blacks.

[Bikkuri]

Lol.... I mentioned that to another foreigner here in Japan... He was talking about an African-American from the UK.. I told him to think about what he just said...

He didn’t get it;

I had to explain that if the guy was from the UK, HOW could he be an American... he said, “oh yeah... good question”..

THAT was his answer :p

The hyphen-name crap is SO PC..

Either you’re an American, or your not...

;)

Bikk