What Caused the Decline of African-Americans in Baseball?

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What Caused the Decline of African-Americans in Baseball?
ShysterBall found this 4/30/2008 on www.sabernomics.com [flag]
With the celebration of Jackie Robinson Day earlier this month, I read quite a bit of commentary on African-American participation in baseball. This post contains some of my thoughts on the issue. There is no denying that the percentage of Americans-Americans in baseball has declined over the past few years. A recent report The 2008 Racial and Gender Report Card: Major League Baseball by ... [link]

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Analyzing > Merely Counting
Published 4/30/2008 by Craig Calcaterra at ShysterBall
... about the declining numbers of African-Americans in the game, but J.C. Bradbury actually took the time to dig into the data in order to try and figure out why there are fewer blacks in the game. Definitely worth a long read.

Race Report Card
Published 5/5/2008 by Tangotiger (tangotiger@yahoo.com) at THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball
I enjoyed JC’s take.  I haven’t read the linked PDF report, but my initial reaction follows: JC, good stuff. Isn’t it possible to look at the overall black pro athlete population and say a) that it has declined, b) that a smaller slice of that pie goes to MLB and a larger slice to NFL, NBA So that the combination of the two results in a cancelling effect for NFL, NBA to make it look like they are unaffected? Also, MLB has seen a rise in run scoring, resulting in a drop in small ball (meaning ...