Thread: No Black Astros (how is this an issue?)
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Old 10-26-2005, 03:50 PM
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I'm going to agree with JLB here. While I don't think the writer of the story conveyed this well, I believe the actual story is that there are not very many young blacks interested in playing baseball anymore. I've seen several similar stories over the last few years, and none of them tried to spin it quite the way this writer did. MLB has many major city efforts to try to reverse this trend, but it doesn't seem to be working.
I still don't see the fundamental issue. Why is it a problem that more blacks aren't playing baseball? The population of the US is roughly 12% black. Blacks comprise about 9% of baseball players? The percentage of blacks in basketball and football is much higher than 12%. Doesn't this by definition mean there is a problem with the low number of whites in these sports? And what about hispanics? They are all over the diamond but now many are in the NFL?

Is it a lesser problem that there are not more black Software Engineers or stockbrokers? I just don't get the special relatinoship between blacks and baseball that makes this a problem. Why should anyone 'feel badly' or need to 'itensify' their efforts?
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