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On Easter Sunday, two weeks into the 2012 Major League Baseball season, the late Jackie Robinson was worshipped, as he is every April 15th. Every player and coach in all 15 games played that day wore Robinson’s number 42 to pay tribute to the man who broke baseball’s “color barrier” in 1947. And, as has been the case in recent years, Jackie Robinson Day provided the perfect opportunity for black baseball players, Robinson’s white former friends, and even baseball’s white commissioner to complain that there are not enough blacks in the sport. In the upcoming months, there will be more of this hand-wringing. http://amren.com/features/2012/05/raceball-2012/
Just as with pro football, the native born black talent pool is shrinking. The big difference is that MLB (as opposed to the NFL) still largely objectively evaluates players on talent and production, two areas where American Whites have a clear advantage. The biggest reasons I see for these numbers are that the differences between Whites and blacks in these areas are becoming more pronounced, and the number of hispanic players has greatly increased. These two factors have at the same time helped and hurt the chances for White college players to go into MLB. I have no sympathy for American born blacks in this regard because they are the beneficiaries of inaccurate subjective evaluations and affirmative action in most other major sports, to the detriment of White athletes. With all the money and time being spent to increase black American involvement in baseball, I find it both amusing and somewhat satisfying to see their numbers continue to dwindle.