Why Are There So Few Black Players in Major League Baseball?

The National Review reports:

Here’s a shocking statistic I learned from “Called Out at Home,” a new study by Joseph Price and Kevin Stuart, published by the Austin Institute: The percentage of major-league baseball players who are black today is as low as it was around the time Jackie Robinson retired after the 1956 season.

The proportion of black major league baseball players rose steadily for decades after Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947 and became a national icon. “But then, starting in the late 1970s and accelerating through the 80s and 90s, African American representation took a curious downward turn,” Price and Stuart point out. “Now less than half what it once was, black representation has plummeted from over 18% of all pro players to just 7%.”

No word yet from the quota counters at the EEOC on this store.