If you are black, does your son play baseball?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by the MLB numbers - 58% white, 8% black. i guessed the highest percentage of players were Latino.

Folks, you know that most Latinos are white, correct?

Can we please drop this obsession with skin color?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by the MLB numbers - 58% white, 8% black. i guessed the highest percentage of players were Latino.

Folks, you know that most Latinos are white, correct?

Can we please drop this obsession with skin color?

You know Dominicans, Nicaraguans, and Hondurans who identify as white?

[Anonymous]

I think in part it is because the popularity of baseball has dramatically declined so kids are migrating to other sports. It is also a huge time commitment.

[Anonymous]

I'd be damned if my son plays baseball or football

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by the MLB numbers - 58% white, 8% black. i guessed the highest percentage of players were Latino.

Folks, you know that most Latinos are white, correct?

Can we please drop this obsession with skin color?

Most Latinos are native Americans colonized by the Spanish . Your ignorance is deeply unsettling

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by the MLB numbers - 58% white, 8% black. i guessed the highest percentage of players were Latino.

Pitchers are almost all white and there are a ton of pitchers in MLB

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm surprised by the MLB numbers - 58% white, 8% black. i guessed the highest percentage of players were Latino.

Pitchers are almost all white and there are a ton of pitchers in MLB

Same can be said for nfl quarterbacks.

Funny in high school and college there are a good bit of black quarterbacks where the fundamentals of that position aren't as critical as it is for the next level

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My 16 yo DS has been playing baseball since he was 5. Loves the sport and is very good at it. He has always been the only AA on his travel teams.

Is DS' dad at home or if not, highly involved in DS' life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. My 16 yo DS has been playing baseball since he was 5. Loves the sport and is very good at it. He has always been the only AA on his travel teams.

Is DS' dad at home or if not, highly involved in DS' life?

And here we go...

[Anonymous]

OP here, so here are some of the reasons why I think there has been a big decline in no particular order:

1. Baseball, it seems more than any other sport, is one that looks like it is passed down from father to son. The black community unfortunately has more single parents/single moms or grandma raising kids.

2. The rise of travel baseball to hone skill and identify talent is a huge issue as the financial barrier to entry to get skilled up and discovered has markedly increased.

3. The initial payoffs in basketball and football are better (d1 baseball schollies are rarely if ever fullrides, the minor league system has crap pay, etc)

4. baseball is too slow for modern kids

5. baseball is tougher to 'play pickup' or 'street' style - if you aren't in a structured setting, it isn't 1950 - you can't get 9 or 18 kids to go to park on your own anymore.

6. mlb clubs have an incentive to pick up cheap latinos through the international signing system and have spend way more money developing and and scouting in latin america than the inner cities, since the inner city kids would be subject to the normal draft. In latin america, it's more the wild west "eat what you kill' so clubs are willing to invest without fearing they're investment will lead to another club benefitting.

RBI is a mLB program designed to get inner city kids playing but without the individual club incentive like there is in latin america (where it is more akin to the european/sa football model) it won't be as effective.

[Anonymous]

Baseball doesn't get as much attention whore look at me focus like football and basketball that people need to feel like someone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Baseball doesn't get as much attention whore look at me focus like football and basketball that people need to feel like someone

Which is odd because in baseball everyone playing is guarunteed to have atleast some part of the game where the EVERYONE in the stadium and tv is watching you individually (when you are hitting) or if you are a pitcher.

That's not the case in basketball and football where outside of the superstars, you can just blend into the background

[Anonymous]

I'm sad that baseball isn't as popular. DH isn't a fan (only watches and follows hockey) and knows little about the game, so I doubt my son will pick it up without my prodding.

It's definitely a slower game and the gratification of the "big" play doesn't come as easily as it does in other sports.

And baseball has so.many.rules and exceptions, more so than any other mainstream sport IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No. Mine played Tball when they were little, like 4/5ish but that was about it.

I do however, have a 3rd cousin that plays in the MLB.

Did your third cousin have dad at home or was he raised by single mom? Just curious.

Both parents at home.

[Anonymous]

Here's a link to Jones's comments for those who hadn't seen them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2016/09/12/adam-jones-no-anthem-protests-in-baseball-because-its-a-white-mans-sport/