Race in Sports (Cool Chart)

February 23, 2010 by Be More

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“It’s baseball season again, but what you might not notice amid the crack of the bat and roar of the crowd is that – a half a century after Jackie Robinson’s historic entrance into the game – the number of black players is at its lowest level in almost 20 years. This chart is a racial breakdown of four major sports.”


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(Via Good Magazine)

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