The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball

NY Times ^ | April 6, 2016 | Jay Caspian Kang

[AppyPappy]

Yes but those are white blacks.

[ScottinVA]

I don’t know who this kid is, but he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. African-American players may only be at 8 percent, but black players make up a whole lot more than 8 percent.

Exactly, and in 2012, the Hispanic representation was 27%. The author must come to understand not every sports team is destined to look like the Harlem Globetrotters.

[jurroppi1]

C.S. Lewis had 'em pegged... "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." ― C.S. Lewis

[rjsimmon]

pitched superbly from innings 2-7 for a 9-6 win over the Dodgers yesterday.

A pox on his house! Go Dodgers!!!

[JimSEA]

Kang, no one is forcing you to live in the same world with people who don’t look like you. When you look at baseball, you are looking at a sport segregated from the larger society by skill. When you refuse to leave your hood because you don’t want to feel uncomfortable, you get the things that come with voluntary segregation.

[Trillian]

The Unbearable Stupidity of commies.

[Scrambler Bob]

would know a slider from the infield fly rule?

= = =

Different sexual perversions?

[Jeff Chandler]

Isn’t baseball known as “the thinking man’s sport”?

[fingers_crossed]

You need ballplayers to play ball...

black players are drawn to basketball because you only need 5 players...

baseball doesn’t come across go on TV..even among whites

But a really big reason is that life has become sooooooooo dangerous in the areas where many black children live....kids and their parents are afraid for them to go outside, for legitimate reasons...even to play basketball...many of the thugs take over the playgrounds and what hoops there are...

just some dipsh** could care-less author trying to make himself less irrelevant

[Biggirl]

Good golly miss molly, on the OPENING DAY over at Fenway Park which included special honors given to one “Big Papi”, David Ortiz in his last opening day as a Red Soxs player.

[notdownwidems]

Here again. I could be wrong, but I remember Roberto Clemente and I don’t recall ever hearing him referred to as anything but Roberto.

Same here! I doubt if this idiot was even alive when Clemente was

[Dawgreg]

You stole my thunder......;)......same could be said of football though not as prevalent as basketball......

[GregoTX]

Baseball isn’t all white, the stitching is red.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Hispanic players in the NBA:

http://www.nba.com/enebea/hispanos/alltime_nba_latino_players.html

[pgkdan]

Geez...you had to go and do that! I hate seeing Denard Span out of a Nat’s uniform! Hear he’s doing great in SF. Good for him!

[glorgau]

The racism against whites, by whites, had become an epidemic of outright lies, hypocrisy and cowardice.

Yep, it's just like the concept of self-loathing jews. Those sort of people feel guilty for breathing.

[uncitizen]

The anti white racism isn’t cloaking itself anymore.

[kabar]

Last year, black players made up just over 8 percent of big-league rosters, down more than 50 percent from 1981.

The author excludes Black Latinos. There is more diversity in baseball than there is in the NFL or the NBA. Whites, blacks of all ethnic groups, and Asians abound in baseball. Just some more racist crap from the NYT.

[pgkdan]

This is such a stupid article. Blacks are well represented in baseball, almost equal to their general population numbers. Tell Dusty Baker that he’s playing in a racist game. I’d like to hear what he has to say about it.

[ScottinVA]

Yeah, I’m glad he joined the Giants’ lineup. He’s a great addition!