Another 0.9% is American Indian or Alaska Native, and 1.5% is Asian. Not just in sports, but people from all walks of life are taking more notice of these issues. 42 that day. Unknown professional baseball players have the highest average salary compared to other ethnicities. In comparison, the report said 2020 Census data showed racial minorities constituted about 42.2 percent of the U.S. population. For the present study, Dan did the work to determine the 10,240 players who have played since 1947, which players played in which seasons, their primary positions and other demographic or statistical information. More than three hundred players from the archipelago have played in the major leagues since 1926. Table 1 summarizes the percentage of the total pool of players who appeared in a given season who belong to each ethnic group. The other two decided not to continue playing and returned to school or college. In addition, Hispanic representation has also increased, from 0.5 percent in 1947 to 8.4 percent in 2016. Before the start of the 2022 MLB season, a report from "The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES)" at the University of Central Florida shed light on the racial origins of players. This season, 27 percent of major league players and more than 42 percent (conservatively) of minor league players are Hispanic. Today, we released the results of the 2017 Racial and Gender Report Card for Major League Baseball. The conveyer belt of talent from Latino nations fuelled by the presence of MLB academies shows no sign of letting up. For the present study, Dan did the work to identify the more than 11,000 players who have played since 1947, which players played in which seasons, their primary positions and other demographic or statistical information. What is the racial breakdown of major league baseball? Newsweek reached out to the MLB for further comment. In last year's draft, about a quarter of the top 26 players were African-American or Latino. Show publisher information Only 6.7 percent of MLB players are African American, according to data from 2017. MLB has seen a small increase in the percent of Black players on opening-day rosters this year, with 7.8%, or 80 players, comprising the 30-man rosters, injured and restricted lists,. The league's percentage of Black players "has been a serious concern for many years," the report said. Its a simple question with a simple answer. "While we would like the number of Black players on opening day rosters to be higher, there are signs of optimism," Bean said. Combining the percentage of black players (7.7) and Latino, Asian and other diverse players (34.6) on active, non-disabled list Opening Day rosters in 2017, baseball -- a sport that was 98.3-percent white in 1947, according to the Society for American Baseball Research -- has reached unprecedented (and, when compared to the other major American . However, there may be a caveat to that statistic. The most common ethnicity among professional baseball players is White, which makes up 72.8% of all professional baseball players. The prevalent opinion seems to be that the cause of the decline in African Americans is external to major league baseball: that African Americans are focusing on other sports as youths, either by choice or because of fewer opportunities to play baseball. To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set As summarized in Table 1 above, the percentage grew slowly until the late 1960s, at which point the level plateaued at around 11 to 12 percent where it held steady for roughly 20 years. A baseball league was established there in 1878, and it gradually evolved into the Cuban winter league that played until Fidel Castro took power in 1959 and abolished all professional sports.