02-20-2022, 03:48 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BobC
And finally, in 1956, Jackie Robinson's last year in the majors, the percentage of black players on MLB rosters was 6.7%. At the start of the 2020 season, the percentage of black players on MLB rosters had risen to 7.8%, still below the percentage of blacks overall in the US population.
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It's worth noting that this is true, but there was also a 40 year stretch from 1968-1998 that the % of black players was more like 14-19%.
https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/baseb...ics-1947-2016/
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