Ethnic Makeup of MLB Players over Time
12/25/2020
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Source:
Mark Armour and Daniel R. Levitt, Baseball Demographics, 1947-2016
https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/baseballdemographics-1947-2012
This chart shows us how the MLB peaked in its concentration of black players in the 80s and 90s before rapidly falling by the turn of the century.