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Why do people claim African Americans are underrepresented in MLB?
When people make this claim they're comparing the percentage of the U.S. population African Americans represent to the percentage they represent in the Majors and suggest this is evidence that they're underrepresented in the sport. However, these people seem to forget that baseball isn't solely an American sport, it's international. There are MLB players that come from countries throughout Latin America and Asia, with populations totaling in the hundreds of millions. So when you put it into perspective, African Americans aren't underrepresented in the Majors on an international level. In fact, you can say they're overrepresented.
Conversely Hispanic players aren't overrepresented in the sport like people claim when you consider the size of the populations in their native countries. Hispanic Americans (native to the U.S.) are actually far more underrepresented than African Americans.
Thoughts?
6 Answers
- SnidLv 77 years ago
Firstly, it's Latino players and not Hispanic that are a big part of MLB. BIG difference. To answer your question, the percentage of African Americans in MLB has been declining over the years. It's a fact.
- MFFLLv 77 years ago
White players are very underrepresented in the NBA, but you don't hear anyone b*tching about that. I don't know why this crap matters. It's not like there's a ton of young talented African American players, and teams are passing on them because of their race.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Major League Baseball is played in the United States so these claims are, in fact, accurate.
- 7 years ago
There is some truth to it, but then you could say that whites are underrepresented in the NFL and NBA
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- 7 years ago
idk what underrepresented means, but i think there should be more americans. real americans.
