Why fewer blacks play pro baseball

This is amazing. Another appropriate title would be “why Gary Sheffield is a fool,” and we should all pity the fool.

ESPN.com has the story. Sheffield said that he “called it years ago … that you’re going to see more black faces, but there ain’t no English going to be coming out. … [It's about] being able to tell [Latin players] what to do — being able to control them. … So, if you’re equally good as this Latin player, guess who’s going to get sent home?”

The man needs to retire from both baseball and public speaking. Did he stop to think that far more Hispanics play baseball, throughout the Western hemisphere, than do African-Americans, who traditionally play more basketball and/or football?

Yikes.