Black Catchers in MLB?

Nope, they don't like the position.

Blacks have been squatting in grassy feilds for long enough. Let us white guys take over..

Sandy Alomar Jr.

it's a white position because it requires less athleticism

Alomar Jr doesn't count, he was born in Puerto Rico. I should have been more clear, African American only.

Ken Adian wrote:

it's a white position because it requires less athleticism

No, blacks can't pitch either.

Steeplechase2000 wrote:

Sandy Alomar Jr.

Wow! Don't ever let Sandy hear you call him black. He's hispanic.

good question wrote:

This is an interesting question. You would think many black baseball players would excel defensively at the catcher position. Using there third arm to prop them up while squatting, increase there lifespan at the position

prick

This is a running site. F*ck MLB, talk about steroid use.

Play Ball wrote:

I should have been more clear, African American only.

You pussy. Just say black.

The reason there aren't a lot of blacks at catcher is because it requires way too much work.

where are the white point guards and white running backs?

answer is WHO CARES, just like WHO CARES about any black catchers. its not a racial thing, its an athlete/production thing.

if you hit 300, throw guys out, rush for 1000 yds., score 20 ppg w/10 rebounds, you get the job, PERIOD

Catcher is a leadership position for the baseball team. It does require a strong athleticism and a higher level of thinking. He has to call the shots on where the current player with a baseball to throw to. Also, he has to read the batter to determine what kind of a throw that the pitcher should make. Catcher has to defend the home plate at all costs, even it means physical injury. It isn't as easy as it sounds.

This article does a good job of explaining why there aren't much black baseball players these days. It's just a matter of interest, that's all.

Link for article

jlsdfjlkj wrote:

where are the white point guards and white running backs?

answer is WHO CARES, just like WHO CARES about any black catchers. its not a racial thing, its an athlete/production thing.

if you hit 300, throw guys out, rush for 1000 yds., score 20 ppg w/10 rebounds, you get the job, PERIOD

You mean like Steve Nash?

Blacks may not "have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a catcher or perhaps a team captain" and "they don't have the buoyancy" to swim well.

Ken Adian wrote:

it's a white position because it requires less athleticism

I guess you have never been a catcher; I did.

Interestingly offensive lineman was once a taboo position for blacks. The line of thought was that they were intelligent enough to perform the blocking assignments to protect the white quarterback. Like the other poster sports is now all about if you perform you play.

Play Ball wrote:

Does anybody know if there are currently any black catchers playing in the majors? The most recent that I can come up with is Charles Johnson and he retired a while ago. Thanks

There are certain necessities required for the position.

I've been on this site for a couple of days-Mainly because I was looking for info about the London Marathon that I'm going to watch. I fly out tomorrow. I also thought that it would be a great forum for those that wanted to support my brother or American distance running in general. Also, I'm a hospitalist physician that has been working night shifts, so it was a good break during down time...

However, Every day, I find one of these race baiting threads....

Now the general premise, no black catchers in baseball, seems benign enough, but the race baiting that goes on many of these threads "Asian gunmen" (what a tragedy), "no african americans on lets run", "whites need to get a backbone" seems to follow a particular trend. Someone will make a general statement....then shortly after someone will set himself up for a racist remark. In this thread the second statment is "Nope, they don't like the position", then the next statement is the dinger.." Blacks have been squatting in grassy feilds for long enough. Let us white guys take over.." Now this takes an originally benign statement into hatemogering. From the time of the two posts, it probably is the same adolescent, pimple-faced kid who wrote both posts, to encite more downhill and racist propaganda. This same kid probably starts many of these posts and then responds to himself with the hopes that other people will join in simply because Race is an inflammatory thing. It always will be. It probably makes the kid feel good, because judging from the number of these posts, he probably has poor social skills and lives for the inflammatory responses from his mindless fodder. Maybe, because there are not many blacks or asians on this site, it is easy to continue to do this...

If I'm wrong, prove to me that these posters are different, its easy enough, I have left my email for you to respond.....

Well to be honest with you, I really don't care, but it is sad that what could be a good forum descends into this kind of nonsense...

Ask yourself, why there seems to be so much racist propaganda on this site...it probably is the same kid that posts much of this stuff...its sad really... and it probably is not worth the time to respond..to "I love Peeps" and "Satch, the black genius", and whatever little name that he can easily plug into the name section of these posts...and Letsrun is really not my forum. (I'm just a visitor). It belongs to you guys...

On another note, I might upload video from London during the time I'm there...It could be a historic day (the greatest Marathon field ever assembled). I also speak Amharic and some swahili so I can communicate with some of the foriegn runners from East Africa. This is a very preliminary idea, but I'm curious about the interest for something like this. I have a pretty high quality web camera.. It probably has to be through a myspace page or something..

Now I gotta go pay my taxes.....last minute...