I think you goofed the numbers
Posted on: April 16, 2024 at 13:30:59 CT
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6% of Americans are black males, but 13% (ish) of American males are black.
13% should be the number they'd look for.
I think it's to MLB's detriment that there are fewer black baseball players. I think of the stars when I was growing up and many of them are black. Not quite so much now.
I don't know what MLB is supposed to do about this, however. Be more popular than the NFL and the NBA to black youth?
One thing I think it ISN'T is poverty related, given the huge numbers of MLB players who grow up in very poor areas of Latin America.
So, I don't know what should be or can be done. But I think chastising the MLB because black athletes choose other sports is unwarranted without other data.