Major League Baseball celebrates the 69th anniversary Friday of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, and while the number of African-American players on teams remain near historic low ...

Until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1947, African American baseball players were limited primarily to the Negro Leagues.

Amid dwindling numbers of Black players, Major League Baseball is partnering with HBCUs during All-Star weekend in Atlanta.

MLB teams once did the work of developing young players in their system. Not long after Curt Flood won the right of free agency for players and contracts began to rise, things started to change.

What You Need To Know. According to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, a little over 6% of MLB players identified as Black or African American at the start of the 2023 season, a ...

Major League Baseball saw its first Africa-born player in 2017. ... While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent to less than 8 percent, ...

In 1947, Robinson was called up to the Dodgers, becoming the first African American player in the MLB. Expand Tweet. Ad "Color shot of Jackie Robinson taking BP at Ebbets Field" ...

Smiles abounded all around at the 2025 HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile on Friday. Hosted at Atlanta’s Truist Park ...

Many of his African American friends don’t, he said. RELATED: Number of Black Major League Baseball players still historically low Their dream is to become the next Lamar Jackson or LeBron James ...

In 1976, the year I was born, 18% of Major League Baseball players were African American. A year earlier, in 1975, the representation was at its peak at 18.5%.

Just 6.2% of players on 2023 MLB opening-day rosters were African American. It’s a problem that starts at the youth level. How Tampa Bay youth baseball organizations support African-American players ...