<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=750 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class="" vAlign=top width=560>Black managers in jeopardy, but so are black players and fans
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>Black managers in jeopardy, but so are black players and fans</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>By TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Columnist
October 7, 2006
Dusty Baker is gone. Frank Robinson is finished.
Cito Gaston won two World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays but hasn't seen the inside of a dugout in years. And Don Baylor suffered the same fate a few years ago that befalls losing managers everywhere -- he was fired.
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</NOSCRIPT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>So now there is one.
One black manager in baseball.
One.
The same number there was in 1975, the year Robinson made history by becoming the first of his kind in the major leagues.
One.
Not a token one, to be sure. Willie Randolph has some serious credentials, and he just might have his New York Mets on the way to the World Series.
But, in a sport that has liked to pat itself on the back in recent years for opening the way to minority hires, one seems like an awfully lonely number.
"It's been a concern, and it's been something that I think Major League Baseball needs to do a better job on addressing," Randolph said.
Yes, baseball does.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> I agree Baseball really does need to balance their books! What about white players being the minority on the field, if we're going to base this argument on managers only it isn't fair to the Minority:smoker2: We don't hear or read any bias there? Lets level the whole field or just accept things as they are..........
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR><TR><TD class=yspsctnhdln>Black managers in jeopardy, but so are black players and fans</TD></TR><TR><TD height=7><SPACER height="1" width="1" type="block"></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>By TIM DAHLBERG, AP Sports Columnist
October 7, 2006
Dusty Baker is gone. Frank Robinson is finished.
Cito Gaston won two World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays but hasn't seen the inside of a dugout in years. And Don Baylor suffered the same fate a few years ago that befalls losing managers everywhere -- he was fired.
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One black manager in baseball.
One.
The same number there was in 1975, the year Robinson made history by becoming the first of his kind in the major leagues.
One.
Not a token one, to be sure. Willie Randolph has some serious credentials, and he just might have his New York Mets on the way to the World Series.
But, in a sport that has liked to pat itself on the back in recent years for opening the way to minority hires, one seems like an awfully lonely number.
"It's been a concern, and it's been something that I think Major League Baseball needs to do a better job on addressing," Randolph said.
Yes, baseball does.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> I agree Baseball really does need to balance their books! What about white players being the minority on the field, if we're going to base this argument on managers only it isn't fair to the Minority:smoker2: We don't hear or read any bias there? Lets level the whole field or just accept things as they are..........
