BIGSHOTMAXXX said:
Can you name 1 BLACK Houston Astros Player?? (
1 2 3)
funny you mention this, it reminds me of this conversation we had a few months ago!!
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8942
Nice read on that topic
"Astros roster has no black players," announced the AP headline. That would be the Houston Astros, allegedly the first team with no black players to compete in a World Series since 1953. Except, Houston has a few black players. They're just Hispanic blacks, so they don't count.
The reason baseball has fewer American-born black players is that they've chosen other sports. The AP reported that half of NCAA Division 1 basketball players and 44 percent of NCAA football players are black. But only 6 percent of the baseball players are. America's best black athletes are opting for other sports. That's sad, considering the great opportunities available in baseball and the hell black players went through to integrate the sport.
If promising young athletes reject baseball because they perceive it as too white, that is a shame. But shouldn't we be more worried about inner city kids rejecting college because they perceive it as too white? If Hall of Fame baseball players wanted to save young black kids, they could do worse than visiting inner city schools and encouraging black students to go to college.
Census data released earlier this year show that high school graduates with a bachelor's degree earn almost twice as much as their counterparts who did not graduate from college. And while 30.6 percent of whites have a bachelor's degree, only 17.6 percent of blacks do. (By the way, even more troubling, only 12.1 percent of Hispanics have a bachelor's.)
Fewer black Americans than white Americans graduate high school and a lot fewer go to college. This is a serious problem. But we're worried about whether the best black athletes -- the ones likely to become wealthy pros -- choose basketball or football over baseball.
