Small surprise that it doesn’t take much to double the number of African-American starters. Overall, they represent only 3% of all pitchers, even lower than the 8% of all MLB players who are black, which is half of their percentage from 1997. The reasons for this are manifold, from the high price of entry for kids into baseball (which requires not only bat, ball and glove, but a reasonably open, green space to play it in, none of which are easy to come by in inner-city America) to the long, narrow road baseball players must travel to the professional level.
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