Major League Baseball teams celebrated Jackie Robinson on Monday, dressing every player on every team in jersey number 42 as they do every year. MLB’s Twitter account sent out a Budweiser ad featuring the trail-blazing baseball star, adding the hashtag #ThisBudsForJackie. On opening day, African-American players composed just 7.7 per cent of big-league rosters, down from 8.4 per cent last spring. The 1980s and early 1990s, when African-American players routinely made up more than 15 per cent of MLB rosters, aren’t coming back. At this point the question isn’t why so few African-American players make the majors.

Source: thestar April 17, 2019 21:11 UTC