The book "You're Not Welcome Here: Exclusionary Practices in the Game of Baseball" has been officially released to Amazon.com, putting the book in front of nearly 90% of all readers. It is also available on Kindle, Barnes and Noble and in both Paperback and Hardcover format.
Research Summary. Using a database of 30 million profiles, Zippia estimates demographics and statistics for Baseball Umpires in the United States. Our estimates are verified against BLS, Census, and current job openings data for accuracy. After extensive research and analysis, Zippia's data science team found that:
When a sport is nearly universally run by a single race of people, it is unlikely that sport will have equality among the races in other areas. Leadership of MLB teams from 1996-2016 was universally White aside from a blip in 2004 where a single Black leader spent a year atop an MLB franchise. This lack of upper-level minority...
What these numbers tell you is that baseball fans are OLD. HALF of all fans of MLB (as of 2013, the numbers have likely only gotten worse for baseball) are over 55, compared to 37% of NFL fans and only 25% of NBA fans. If these numbers held steady, it would indicate a looming crisis in Major League Baseball.
The chart above shows us the way Black players were able to reach the MLB and that was nearly exclusively in the outfield for position players, with several years actually having no Black MLB catchers. Outfield makes up 33% of MLB positions and yet 60% of Black players who made the MLB since the mid-1960s have been outfielders.
Much of the racial wealth gap is caused by a gap in the way people of color are treated in America. One of the ways in which people of color are mistreated the most is in the criminal justice system. A Black man is far more likely to be incarcerated in his lifetime than a White or Latino man. In...
Nearly all sports stars start their sport as children. This chart shows how many different barriers to entry there are in youth sports and why we see demographics that do not match the country as a whole in our elite-level High School sports. Some of these numbers represent cultural differences or choices made by families, but the numbers show...
There are many reasons why youth sports may decline in numbers, but the main thing to be taken from these charts is that the two sports increasing in participation are extremely white sports played by overwhelmingly affluent kids. Across all divisions of Men's NCAA Ice Hockey, there are just 35 Black players compared to 3,280 White players (Source:...
Wealth and Income are two very different things, but they both encapsulate the same basic issue: the ability to afford luxuries. Since 1962, we have seen the gap spread between White and non-White Americans. Why is this?