When the Astros and Phillies line up Friday

[kairos12]

it will be the 1st time, since 1950, neither team will have a African American player.

* The Astros Manager and 3rd Base Coach are African Americans.

Note for history.

[Ninga]

1. Yep, heard it as well on Keith Olbermann's podcast today. By the way, he is outstanding.

[Casady1]

2. This is not surprising

I coached little league and you could not get the African American kids to play. Baseball has become a well off game. Players have to come from households with a lot of disposable money. Gloves are $250.00 bats are $300.00 and travel baseball is in the thousands.

[NoRethugFriends]

3. And the Phillies have few Hispanic players as well. (nt)

[TxGuitar]

8. Same with the Astros

14 of the 26 members of their WS roster are Hispanic, including 3 Cubans.

[luvs2sing]

4. Astros also have an African-American outfielder..

Michael Brantley, but he is recovering from shoulder surgery and not on the roster.

Still, pretty damn whitey white white. Ugh..

[underpants]

5. Venezuelans, Dominicans, and suburban white guys

[rurallib]

6. I don't watch much baseball these days, but I was noticing the other day

the lack of AA players all around. I was wondering if it was me or if there really was a lack of AA players in the MLB.

That is quite interesting. Not sure what it means. Someone upthread noted it was the cost of equipment. I would guess lack of facilities in AA neighborhoods is also a factor.

[Xavier Breath]

7. Just read this online and came here to post it.

I've heard over the years that the baseball demographics were headed in this direction, but I don't follow the game and had no idea it had reached this point.