Four years later, Allen stood on the field at the Jackie Robinson Training Complex in Vero Beach, Florida, wearing a purple, white and gold baseball ... the number of Black players is 6.0% ...

The cold, hard numbers are shocking to the senses, but Major League Baseball and The ... a historic low number of players on the field will actually be Black. Only 6.1% players on this year ...

According to a Major League Baseball Racial and Gender Report Card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida, the number of Black players in the ...

Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Players wear No. 42 for Robinson, the first Black ... 12 and 13, we lose millions of kids to of baseball for a number of ...

Of the many Black athletes who’ve made their mark on the sport, here are six baseball ... White Sox, proving himself a force ...

Shut out by the white establishment, Black players formed their own leagues. During that time, Black baseball stars played ... Every player wears the number 42 on Jackie Robinson day.

Aldridge said the huge number of international players is a factor. “I don’t know how Black numbers ... leaguers were White, according to a study by the Society for American Baseball Research.

For baseball fans, the popularity of the game overshadows a more disturbing trend: the number of American-born Black players in MLB is at a historic low of 6 percent, despite many efforts to ...