re bonilla thf kimbark uchicago edu ted frank writes in article mjones fenway mjones donald aix kingston ibm com writes fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu eric roush writes quick name a light hitting black outfielder or b who lasted years in the bigs i bet you can name two dozen white ones otis nixon stole bases ok he s still light hitting but baseball managers don t think so they think he like omar moreno before him is a perfect leadoff man awesome defense well yeah on the other hand for the first few years of his career he looked like herb washington dan gladden doesn t seem to suck defensively either darnell coles he s still around because of his when he hit hr yeah and how many of the white guys played one year into a long career it s actually not an uncommon phenomenon and how long a guy hangs around based on one good year seems like a reasonable question to explore on a racial basis billy hatcher we ll see if he s still around in for his tenth year hey he plays for lou gorman doesn t he ok so it s eight years ok i admit to taking a quick browse through the major league handbook but only after the first or oh and there s the all time light hitting black outfielder lou brock look it up and curt flood cesar geronimo cesar cedeno brock suffered from otis nixon disease but he wasn t perceived as light hitting neither was curt flood cesar cedeno was not light hitting good point on cedeno otoh i haven t seen that extensive list of year dan gladdens either there really aren t that many players altogether who hang around for years even if they re reasonably good mike jones aix high end development mjones donald aix kingston ibm com may you live in interesting times chinese curse
