The University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports has graded Major League Baseball on its race/gender diversity. The league’s central offices were given an A for racial diversity and a B-minus for gender.
Study: Fewer Black MLB Players Than In 1995, Roughly Same Number Of Female MLB Players
↵↵Baseball received an A for racial diversity in hiring, the same grade as last year, and a B-minus for gender, down from a B. Its overall grade remained a B-plus.
↵↵On the field, there are fewer black players (8.5 percent) than there were in 1995 (19 percent). The ratio of women on the field is also holding steady at 0.0 percent, just as it was in 1995 or at any other period in history. I’m betting that we see women on the same field as men at some point in the future, and the most startling thing about that is how startled we are by that prospect.
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