Only 8.4 percent of major league players last season were black, the lowest level in at least two decades. As recently as 1995, 19 percent of big leaguers were black, according to Richard Lapchick, director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports. Nine percent were black in both 2004 and 2005, and the current figure is the lowest since at least the…
Posted: March 29th, 2007.
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