MLB receives decent racial, gender marks in hiring
A.P. / 5-7-14
Major League Baseball maintained its racial and gender hiring practices in the last year, while the percentage of African American players equaled a study's all-time low set in the 2007 season.
That's according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. It gave MLB an A grade in racial hiring and C-plus in gender hiring.
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Overall, 39.1 percent of players (295) in baseball are people of color, with Latino players making up 28.4 percent (214) of that figure.
In gender hiring, there was an increase for women in team professional administration positions from 26.3 percent (357 women) to 27 percent (376). At the senior executive level positions in the league office, women occupied 21.4 percent (12 of 56 positions), an increase of 18.7 percent.
LINK: http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/MLB-receives-decent-racial-gender-marks-5461460.php
According to the link, Opening Day baseball rosters featured 8.2 percent of players who identified themselves as African American. This equals an all-time low for the second time since the study began in 1988.