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Reviving Baseball in Inner-Cities a Priority For MLB
In 1975, nearly one out of every four major league players was African American From the 1950s to the 1970s, baseball tended to be the first choice for the best Black athletes...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Black Football Players Speak Out Against Limbaugh
If one were to Google “lightning rod” a picture of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh might appear...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Kimbo Takes a Slice of Ultimate Fighting Championships
Americans are suckers for Horatio Alger stories In a typical Alger tale a young boy, often an immigrant, grows up on the mean streets and overcomes seemingly insurmountable obstacles to grab his slice of the American Dream...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Matt Kemp, A Hit For Los Angeles Dodgers
Nicknamed “The Bison” because of his long strides, great strength, and animal-like intensity, Matt Kemp, 25, of the Los Angeles Dodgers is an African American baseball star who seems ready to make his mark on the national stage in October...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Where Are All the Black College Football Coaches?
The on-field workforce is about 50 percent African American
Middle management is about 30 percent African American...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Legal Sports Betting: The Risk Vs. The Reward
Four states had legal sports betting on their books in 1992 when the federal government banned states from the bookmaking business, and grandfathered in existing legal sports gambling in Nevada, Montana, Oregon, and Delaware...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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African Americans in Sports and the Absent Father
Much has been made recently of the dearth or decline of African Americans in sports like baseball, lacrosse, golf, soccer, swimming, and hockey and the dominance of African Americans in sports like basketball, football, and track...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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James Stewart Breaks Barriers In Extreme Sport, Super Motocross
Born in 1985, James “Bubba” Stewart has been called the “Tiger Woods of super motocross” because of his domination of a sport as an African American with mostly Caucasian competitors...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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African American Athletes Gaining in Lacrosse
In 1953 the Brooklyn Dodgers made history by starting five players of African descent (Americans Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella, Don Newcombe and Jim Gilliam, plus Cuban Sandy Amoros)...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Mike Grier, First American Born Black NHL Player
It is well known that Willie O’Ree of the 1958 Boston Bruins was the first National Hockey League player of African descent...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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Derek Jeter Shines as the Yankees' Captain
Fifty years ago, more than a decade after Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, no one would have guessed that the Yankees captain could someday be African American...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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African Americans in Sports Still Not Pursuing Golf
The phrase African Americans in sports conjures up many images, including soaring dunks in basketball, broken field runs in football, majestic homeruns in baseball and world records in track and field...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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The Lack of African Americans in Baseball
The number of African Americans in baseball had been shrinking for more than 30 years, from a high of 27 percent of major leaguers in 1975 to an all time low of 8...
Author: Paul Hirsch - Category: Sports
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