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What would Jackie think
ESPN has been giving this story a lot of air this past month or so.
Journalist after journalist have chimmed in on the subject, but I guess I'll offer my opinion. They are all pointing out that Major League Baseball is about 8 percent black.
What's the point.
Yes there aren't that many blacks in baseball, but where is the George Mikan look back about there not being whites in basketball anymore.
The Barry brothers are all but retired or out of the league, so why no love for the whites in basketball percentage story.
Where are the black olympic swimmers, how about the white olympic sprinters?
I don't understand why it’s a story at all. There's more diversity in MLB. What about the Latin Americans, Hispanics and Asians in baseball?
I know someone making the decisions wanted a relevant Jackie Robinson story for his 60th anniversary from the time he broke into the league, but give me a break.
I don't think its going to change, but sports people play in America are basically determined by status if you ask me.
Golf, tennis, baseball...anything that requires a lot of equipment/fees/money to garner interest is sports for rich people. White America is happy to shell out any amount of money to make sure little Susie and Robert get a scholarship.
I don't play golf and I hate tennis, but I'm also not rich. In high school golfers and tennis players were dorks.
I went to a country school. It was about football, basketball and baseball. It’s just the way it was.
But the fact that some journalists point out there isn’t enough blacks in baseball is ridiculous.
And I got nothing but love for Jackie Robinson. Yes he broke the color barrier and faced challenge after challenge in life, but would he really care about the growing divisions in the sports world, or would he be more concerned with the actual social issues.
I'm leaning to actual issues. Not million-dollar issues of MLB.
Posted by Clayton Hein at 11:14 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
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I dont understand it either CJ. I mean first, your right about where we went to school. Its was all about the 3 sports that you mentioned. I believe Jackie did do something amazing, but instead of all these stats about blacks not in the MLB is garbage! Most blacks arent trying to play baseball. Baseball is in no means biased either. They blame it on marketing in what not, the players average salaries are marketing enough for me.
