I was surprized to learn that there is at least one Australian baseball player. After all that country doesn't have a history or tradition of baseball.
2006-12-08 07:15:59 · 4 answers · asked by harveymac1336 6 in Sports ➔ Baseball
There have been 20 Australians who appeared in MLB, with both Justin Huber and Peter Moylan appearing in 2006:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bio/Australia_born.shtml
Besides Australia, the following countries were represented during this past season:
USA
Cuba
Canada
Puerto Rico (I know, it's actually a US commonwealth)
South Korea
Curacao
Japan
Panama
Dominican Republic
Mexico
Venezuela
Columbia
England (Phil Stockman)
Nicaragua
Germany
Vietnam (Danny Graves)
Guam (John Hattig)
Taiwan
Indonesia (Tom Mastny)
Aruba (Sidney Ponson)
If I've counted correctly, that gives 21 countries representation, at least by birthplace.
2006-12-08 08:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by Craig S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At the start of the 2006 season, there were 744 players on opening rosters, of which were:
* 582 (78%) US-born (including Puerto Rico):
o 476 (64%) Caucasian
o 75 (10% ) Black
o 31 (4%) Latino
* 162 (22%) foreign-born:
o 119 (15.15%) Latin American (76 from the Dominican Republic, 43 from Venezuela)
o 14 (2%) Asian
o 10 (0.85%) Japanese
2006-12-08 15:27:30 · answer #2 · answered by bdc022187 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Craig S is right
2006-12-08 16:51:10 · answer #3 · answered by Naman B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE QUESTION IS COUNTRIES NOT ETHNIC BACKGROUND.
2006-12-11 11:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋