Astros manager Baker plays race card again. Slams MLB for lack of blacks

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Imagine if a white coach in the NBA or NFL complained about the lack of whites. The swamp media would get him fired within the hour. But they cheer dusty baker and his anti-white racism.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id...ments-lack-us-born-black-players-world-series

oct 27 2022 HOUSTON -- Dusty Baker grew up watching Black stars shine in the World Series, paving his path to a life devoted to baseball.

When he leads the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night, the AL and NL champions are expected to play without any U.S.-born Black players for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier.

It's a fact that deeply disturbs the 73-year-old Baker, one of two Black MLB managers, who has spent his entire life either playing or coaching baseball.

"What hurts is that I don't know how much hope that it gives some of the young African-American kids," Baker told The Associated Press on Thursday. "Because when I was their age, I had a bunch of guys, [Willie] Mays, [Hank] Aaron, Frank Robinson, Tommy Davis -- my hero -- Maury Wills, all these guys. We need to do something before we lose them."

"I don't think that that's something that baseball should really be proud of," said Baker, who won a World Series as an outfielder with the Dodgers in 1981 and is seeking his first championship as a manager. "It looks bad. It lets people know that it didn't take a year or even a decade to get to this point."

 

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Last thing america needs is more black athletes. Blacks need to become useful people - engineers, physicists, businessmen, inventors, plumbers, auto repairmen, electricians and such. But in any job requiring brains, they can't cut it. They lead lives of crime and welfare and a few become useless jocks. BLACK LIVES DO NOT MATTER.

 

[Celticguy]

if you want black kids to get interested in baseball you need to give them what you had... a father

 

[cawacko]

TDAK's one trick pony/racism aside this is actually an interesting topic. On one hand people will say baseball is less diverse today. Yet the data shows MLB is less white and has more foreign born (non white) players. Doesn't that latter qualify as being more diverse? But of course what they really mean are black people. And now they are specifying American born black people.

I definitely understand the desire to have more black kids play the game. Oakland was a hot bed of (black) baseball talent when we moved there in 1981. But it's still interesting how the word diversity gets manipulated.

 

[cawacko]

if you want black kids to get interested in baseball you need to give them what you had... a father

But black kids with fathers in the home still aren't playing baseball so that's not it.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

if you want black kids to get interested in baseball you need to give them what you had... a father

Has nothing to do with it. Fatherless blacks play football and basketball. In fact that's probably why they avoid baseball. They prefer other sports -esp sports with lots of action. Not baseball and not golf.

 

[Celticguy]

But black kids with fathers in the home still aren't playing baseball so that's not it.

if none of the other black kids are playing baseball why would they ?

 

[Celticguy]

Has nothing to do with it. Fatherless blacks play football and basketball. In fact that's probably why they avoid baseball. They prefer other sports -esp sports with lots of action. Not baseball and not golf.

which is unfortunate as they are more likely to make money and play longer in baseball.