BlogThink – African-Americans in Baseball
Posted by: Richie Rich in Baseball Business, BlogThink
Gary Sheffield opened his yapper the other day and told us that the reason there’s fewer African-Americans in Baseball is because of the influx of Latin American players who teams keep signing … and then Torii Hunter waxed on the subject and agreed with Sheff that African-Americans would be out of baseball in ten years.
HRD chimed in a couple days ago that it’s simple economics … Let’s find out what other bloggers are saying about it …
The esteemed Hardball Times agrees with Home Run Derby that it’s about the money …
The money trail leads to the answer to Sheffield’s concerns about the increasing ratio of Latin American to African-American in MLB in 2007.
One of my favorite blogs, Our Book of Scrap pined that the Devil Rays and other teams just wasted a bunch of draft picks if Sheffield/Hunter are right …
Boy, I bet the Devil Rays wish they had that kind of information when they drafted David Price with the #1 overall pick yesterday. Figure three years in the minors and this guy is only going to have a six-year Major League career
But my favorite thought on the matter comes from the Drunk Jays Fans …
Considering that, give or take a few million, there is roughly the same amount of African Americans in the U.S.A. as there are Canadians in North America; we have uncovered an even more sinister plot.
MLB hates Canadians more than it hates African Americans.
Both the Hardball Times and Drunk Jays Fans also delve into the diminishing role of Baseball in African-American culture.
Go check them out.
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