I say, MLB and its players have done enough to successfully diversify the sport. What do you say?

Question

I am writing an English essay with this topic and I was wondering what kind of conuterarguments I will get with the topic?

Answer 1

At the playe level, positions are available to the best athletes. Race, religion, nationality, and even an ability to speak english has been removed.

The baseball system is so large that virtually anyone could get a chance to try out for a mnor AAA club, and can even join other clubs to develop their skills in pursuit of passing a AAA tryout.

College is not an issue in baseball. The AAA level openly accepts anyone at any age. I have no doubt there is at least 1 who never finished high school but developed their skills in an AAU club.

All of this helps alleviate the financial burden as well. Good quality cheap or free coaching is available everywhere for athletes wishing to pursue a pro baseball career. The opposite of this would be sports such as gymnastics, etc.

On the other sie, there is a valid argument that minorities are not well represented in coaches, managers, front office, etc. Most o these positions are filled from the player ranks, yet the percentage of minorities in these positions are less than the percentage of minority players.

Counter to this argument, the representation of minorities in these management and coaching postiions are improving quckly. it can be argued that most of these are filled by former athletes with an interest to continue, therefore as more retire from playing and fill these positions, it can be expecteed that their representation will be about the same as their representation among the player ranks.

A discrepency may exist in education. A minority player ismore likely to forego the college experience and go directly from high school to the minor leagues due to their financial requirements - even under scholarship, there is still a lot of expenses involved in attending college. Thi differene in level of education may account for an under representation in the "office" positions. For an apples to apples comaprison, you would not want to look towards the percentage of minor league players as a reference, instead you would want to look towards the percentage of minorities playing in the college ranks. using this as a reference, I suspect you will find minorities well represented in the offices of college baseball.

Answer 2

What about the very small number of African Americans who are currently playing? Most non white players are Latin American and were not born or raised in the US.

MLB does have some inner city programs, but you can't make kids want to play baseball. So I don't know what you would consider to be enough done.

There was a Sports Illustrated article a few years ago about this subject, featuring Torri Hunter. I forget the details, but the number of African Americans playing is mind shakingly low.

Answer 3

I think you need a better essay subject. Baseball like most professional sports signs and plays the best players. Coaches say it all the time, they will play the individuals that give them the best chance of winning. If you want to look at sports and diversity, look at the positions that are hired e.g. coaches.

Answer 4

Generally speaking I think you're correct but as in all sports there will be those who will say that there should be more black managers in the game. I don't think most will be convinced until a minority of some kind actually becomes a franchise owner. Once that happens most will feel, as least in part, some satisfaction.

Answer 5

A sport that those nucking figgers don't dominate.

Answer 6

add it up,i believe the "white" player is now a minority in professional bball,but not college.strange isn't it?

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

Yeah they have a little of everything.