The Off Court Podcast: The Decline in Black Baseball Players

During its peak, Major League Baseball consisted of 17-19% African American players. For a sport that was aggressively segregated well into the 40's, this statistic represented progress. However, at the start of the 2019 season just 7.7 percent of all active MLB players were African American. During this episode Abdul and Eytan dive deep into the social-political forces that are fueling the troubling decline in African American baseball players.
Hosts: Abdul Malik (T: socialistraptor) Eytan Tobin (T: rabbiDieHardman) Chapters: (04:52) - Jackie Robinson and desegregation in Baseball (19:03) - Economics and the decline in African-American baseball players (28:43) - Baseball development in Latin America + players as a global commodity (44:45)- Baseball in the inner-city Produced by The Mind Refinery: www.themindrefinery.com Executive Producer/Mix: George Lagos (T: geo_lag42) Executive Producer/Edit: Kyle Bodanis: T: (@KyleBodanis) I: (@flowdanis) Design: Samantha Clark eMail Samantha and visit the Tailored Pants Design Website