Nearly 80 years after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, analysis shows Black and Latino players still face obstacles as they attempt to make the majors
Black players such as Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts will star in the World Series, but the pipeline remains tricky to navigate.Black players such as Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts will star in the World Series, but the pipeline remains tricky to navigate.
“I think that white people like a validating, happy ending to a story. So they’ll read about Willie Mays and Hank Aaron, because those stories end up with the players in the Hall of Fame – they succeeded,” Nathanson said. “It didn’t make no difference if I hit .300 and hit .270, he was gonna be moved ahead of me,” Allen said.
Catchers were most often the victims of this bias. Before 2000, about 3% of players identified as Black in the minors were at catcher, compared to almost 10% of white players. Each year in the minors before 2000, Black catchers moved to other positions about 50% more often than white catchers, even though the Black players were hitting and fielding better than their white counterparts.
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