re bonilla in article news duke edu fierkelab bchm biochem duke edu eric roush writes in article apr princeton edu roger crux princeton edu roger lustig writes in article steph pegasus cs uiuc edu steph pegasus cs uiuc edu dale stephenson writes in apr princeton edu roger crux princeton edu roger lustig writes if black players can t survive being mediocre or worse how can mcrae and chamberlain be explained nobody s saying it s a hard and fast rule my point is that white players are likely to stick around longer if they re mediocre i went through tb iii and made a list of year of and b who were negative in both adjusted batting runs and total player rating tpr has some problems but it s generally not too far off for a career imho all players who played most of their career after were considered here are a through i haven t done the rest yet armas bailor balboni bannister beauchamp beniquez bergman berry biittner blair bochte bonnell bosley bradford l brown buckner cabell c castillo cater cimoli cline clines coles d collins davalillo dernier dilone gaston geiger geronimo gosger heep iorg a few black players there a lot of white and hispanic hmmm one question how do you differentiate hispanic and black after all some people fall into both categories rafael ramiriez comes to mind and he d fit into this grouping also oops he s not an of b although he is a light hitting utility player sorry about that but miguel dilone would qualify if i remember correctly when i say black i mean us born black people for the purposes of this discussion hispanic players were in baseball before and one team in the s signed lots of hispanics because they went over better with the local audience than blacks did and why would more hispanics stick around than blacks don t know but remember this is the country that had special racial laws for one group and one group only blacks our national history includes huge long term global tensions regarding the black minority the hispanic minority while often discriminated against has never been the object of national obsession it might also be worth your while to subdivide the data into careers starting at year intervals i would think that your prediction would be most true for careers starting in the s and least true for careers starting in the s of course you d also have to compare total ml racial percentages for the era in question absolutely as i said before i expect that this effect is disappearing but it certainly did exist and all out talk of twg s and all that is not without some small reason i m of the opinion that your point is less valid today than it was years ago but i would be curious to see the data well there s the list go for it i ll cull some more names as i go i expect you re right btw roger
