metirish wrote: So there are maybe 60+ African Americans in the majors,not a lot ,hardly any are starting pitchers..Willis the only one?....if you're going by 25 man rosters, 60 would make them 1/15th of the league, probably about their proportion of the population when you take out the spots held by foreigners (which is probably 1/3 of the league at this point) you also have to consider their over-representation in football and basketball- presumably alot of those guys could be playing baseball but chose the other sports