No us-born black baseball players in World Series for 1st time since 1950

Black people don't like baseball.

Ridiculous. There are plenty of American blacks who play the game. Not in this WS, but plenty still play.

So wrong it's comical.

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That is interesting.

There seemed to be a drop in interest in baseball for black Americans.

The 1980 Word Series champion Phillies had a number of black players.
Gary Maddox, Bake McBride, Lonnie Smith (tfw whole outfield).

Plenty of stats of the years.
Hank Aaron, Willie Stargell, Darryl Strawberry, Ricky Henderson.

NONE this year?

That's black people playing baseball. I've never seen a single black spectator at a baseball game.

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I’ve seen that complained about (a “lack of diversity”) and saw the AP’s article about the World Series as well. About 8% of MLB players are black Americans, but significantly more are (at least part) Afro Latino.

What’s the ideal representation though? Is it 12% to align with the share of the population, or 60% to align with the NFL?

"While Black players made up about 18 percent of all MLB rosters when TIDES first began assessing the league's demographic data in 1991, Black players represented only 7.2 percent of all MLB players at the start of the current season."

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Black baseball players made up only about 7.2 percent of all MLB players at the start of the 2022 season, according to a report released this week.

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That’s not even fully true. Look at the Braves’ roster (first alphabetical team). 3/26 are black non-Hispanic, but there are another 6 who are Afro-Latino. But they don’t count as “black”.

Don't get out much do ya?

At least 50 college teams where 90% of the team is black, yep playing in front of a black audience.

Absolutely no one on this thread said that so why are bringing it up?

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Dude was fast, story goes he once hit a grounder between first and xecond and as he turned towards second he had to jump over the ball, cat was fast.

Interesting? Why is it interesting? Why does it matter? Taking one stat and making a blanket statement? That’s interesting? You’re trying to make a big deal out of coincidence, but I feel like you’re trolling trying to make this systemic.

you're sharing a photo from decades ago (when basketball had less of a presence) to make a comment about today's situation.