From “Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season,\" 2007
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GrapevineSports[i-1].body = "\"Jackie Robinson's dream was to increase the percentage of African-American players as well as coaches and front-office personnel. While MLB has achieved these new distinctions regarding who runs the game, the percentage of African-Americans playing the game reached a new low.\"
Richard Lapchick, director of the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports, from his latest annual study of minorities in professional sports
"; GrapevineSports[i++] = new Array("","Highlights from Lapchick's report","","","","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""); GrapevineSports[i-1].body = "• Arturo Moreno, who purchased the Anaheim Angels, remains the only person of color to own a Major League Baseball team and the only Latino in all professional sports to be a majority owner.
• Willie Randolph, in his second season as manager of the New York Mets, led his team to Game 7 of the National League Championship Series. The Mets have Major League Baseball's only Latino general manager, Omar Minaya.
• As of the publication date, the league had six managers of color: two African-Americans and four Latinos.
• According to the league, people of color constitute 33 percent of the manager positions within the minor leagues. This constitutes an 11 percent increase from the previous year.
• According to the league, 37 percent of the combined major and minor league coaching staffs are people of color. This was a decrease from 39 percent for 2005.
• Thirty percent of the coaches in the league were either African-American (16 percent), Latino (13 percent) or Asian.
• Baseball is close to its all-time high of 42 percent players of color: 29.4 percent are Latino, 8.4 percent are African-American and 2.4 percent are Asian; 0.3 percent are listed as “other.”
• The 8.4 percent African-American player total was the lowest percentage since the report was initiated in the mid-1980’s.
• 27 percent of the staff in the league's central office were people of color while women held 43 percent of the positions.
• At the senior administration level, 23 percent of the league's central office employees were people of color, while women occupied 26 percent of the positions.
• At the director and managerial level, 23 percent were people of color, while women occupied 33 percent of the posts.
• At the team level, the league had only two general managers of color.
• 13 percent of team vice presidents were people of color and 15 percent were women, an increase in people of color and an increase in female representation in vice president positions.
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GrapevineSports[i-1].body = "“There aren’t very many African-American players, and it’s not just in here, it’s everywhere. It’s not just a problem — it’s a crisis. ...
“I go back home to Vallejo [California] and the kids say, ’What’s baseball?’ It’s not just an issue for my hometown, it’s an issue for the whole country.
\"I think Major League Baseball should do something about it. I don’t know exactly what they could be doing, but I know it’s not enough. ... Talking about the problem isn’t going to solve it. It’s time to do something.”
C.C. Sabathia, Cleveland Indians, March 2007
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GrapevineSports[i-1].body = "''I have a great deal of reverence for Masters tradition, especially since my victory in 1997, but I must admit, the first time I drove down Magnolia Lane I was not thinking about Bobby Jones or all the Masters stood for. I was thinking about all the great African-American players who never got a chance to play there.''
Tiger Woods, from the foreword to “Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf,\" published in 2001
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GrapevineSports[i-1].body = "“It’s a travesty, no doubt about it. We’ve got a $60 billion-a-year industry. That’s a pretty big pie. Here it is in 2007 and we don’t get a sliver of the pie. We get table scraps.”
Pete McDaniel, author of \"Uneven Lies: The Heroic Story of African-Americans in Golf,\" published in 2001
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