The rosters were announced for the All Star game today. Results were fairly predictable for the starters. Only two White starters for the AL and 3 for the NL. I'm not surprised at those results. There is good evidence that White people consider non-whites better and will vote for them more in balloting like this for all star games (and presidential contests too apparently).
Interesting to me is the reserve line-ups though. The generally much darker AL has 9 of 12 White back ups (non-pitchers--almost all pitchers are White) by my quick calculation and the NL only 4 of 12, not sure about Ian Desmond--pretty sure he's non-white of some percentage.
The back-ups are usually the up and coming players that have not gotten on the radar of DWF's and their mental equivalent 10 year old kids that do most of the voting. In a few years they are usually the top players. Often they won't get starter level votes until some of the older, darker, players die off, (see Jeter, Derek).
If so inclined go to http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp and vote for the final spot of each league. I'd suggest a vote for Bryce Harper for the NL .
Interesting to me is the reserve line-ups though. The generally much darker AL has 9 of 12 White back ups (non-pitchers--almost all pitchers are White) by my quick calculation and the NL only 4 of 12, not sure about Ian Desmond--pretty sure he's non-white of some percentage.
The back-ups are usually the up and coming players that have not gotten on the radar of DWF's and their mental equivalent 10 year old kids that do most of the voting. In a few years they are usually the top players. Often they won't get starter level votes until some of the older, darker, players die off, (see Jeter, Derek).
If so inclined go to http://mlb.mlb.com/index.jsp and vote for the final spot of each league. I'd suggest a vote for Bryce Harper for the NL .