> > I don't know that I'd say that mlb is mostly white players. There are a > significant number of Latinx players. But these days there are far fewer > African American players in the game.
Why is that by the way? What is the sociology of that? Is it because basketball and football soak up so much of the money and time that might otherwise attract Black players? Is it because of a higher level of structural racism within baseball? Is it because baseball and its variants (stickball etc) are no longer played by kids on the streets of New York and other urban centers? (By the way, when the streets are open in my Queens neighborhood the bat and ball game played by the kids is ... cricket.) Is it because of how badly the team managers treated Black baseball players in the 1980s? Some other reasons that I am too ignorant to think of? On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:38 PM jenorem via groups.io <jenorem= [email protected]> wrote: > I don't know that I'd say that mlb is mostly white players. There are a > significant number of Latinx players. But these days there are far fewer > African American players in the game. > > > Sent with ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com> Secure Email. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#921): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/921 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76449323/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
