I stumbled across this very interesting diagram illustrating the racial breakdown of professional sports organizations in the US. The diagram includes the breakdown for Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Soccer (MLS), and the National Football League (NFL).
Here’s the breakdown,
Baseball (MLB) Racial Breakdown:
- White: 60%
- Hispanic: 29%
- Black: 8%
- Asian: 3%
Football (NFL) Racial Breakdown:
- Black: 66%
- White: 31%
- Asian: 2%
- Hispanic: 1%
Basketball (NBA) Racial Breakdown:
- Black: 76%
- White: 20%
- Hispanic: 3%
- Asian: 1%
Soccer (MLS) Racial Breakdown:
- White: 59%
- Black: 22%
- Hispanic: 14%
- Asian: 1%
Hockey, through the National Hockey League (NHL), wasn’t included. But I’ll safely venture a guess the NHL is over 95% white.
Source: http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/0904/trans0409raceinsports.html
To check out related posts I have on Asians in professional sports. Check out the Asian NFL Players list and my 2009 All-Asian Fantasy Baseball Team.
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If we are speaking racial breakdowns then you gotta take into consideration how many of those 29% Hispanic baseball players are black Latinos and here are the black latinos from just the AL East division alone and expound on these numbers for the other 25 teams and you see that 60% or so of the latinos are black latinos. So from a racial stand point at least 15% of the 29% latinos are black. Add that to the 8% black Americans you the number of black in MLB is actually around 23% or better.
Orioles-
Vladimir Guerrero
Félix Pié
Red Soxs-
David Ortiz
Yankees-
Colón, Bartolo (mixed black but kinky hair dead giveaway)
Iván Nova
Mariano Rivera (mostly black)
Rafael Soriano
Robinson Canó
Eduardo Núñez
Pedro Feliciano (mixed black)
Dámaso Marte
Tampa Bay-
Juan Cruz
Manny Ramírez
Blue Jays-
Edwin Encarnación
Yunel Escobar (mostly black)
Frank Francisco
Octavio Dotel
Isnt it interesting that the racial breakdown of soccer most closely resembles the overall US population more so than any other sport? Please feel free to comment me at my email addy, jason_roma@hotmail.com
There is no way in hell there are twenty percent of white people playing basketball unless your counting the females they screwing
For some of us, life would be complete if we could watch an NFL game every day of the week. However, this would cause a world of logistical problems, with exhaustion and injuries becoming major issues for the players.
Wow there’s actually more asian’s in the NFL than Hispanics? I better tell my friend Garret… lol.
what’s your point?
Hi RB,
It’s just a cool chart I stumbled upon and wanted to share with the community. We all moreorless know the racial breakdown of each professional sport, I just put it up for those who like to look at exact numbers.
I’ll reserve a rant on the topic for the future