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Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - srf1957 - 10-21-2017
sekker wrote:
[quote=chopper]
I wonder if they just hired the most qualified people for the job?
Why would being a white male be an advantage? Lots of non-white baseball players.
And I'd think women would have great eyesight, too. No they hired the guys who couldn't make it as players; and couldn't give up the game. . African Americans don't play baseball as a #1 sport now as when back in the Negro Leagues times . Umpires are hired for MLB out of the minor leagues . So tge pay down there is probably not very good so you have to be a masochist to preservre .
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - Article Accelerator - 10-21-2017
chopper wrote:
I wonder if they just hired the most qualified people for the job?
Apparently not.
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - DP - 10-21-2017
Jeez, does everything have to racial?
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - GuyGene - 10-21-2017
DP wrote:
Jeez, does everything have to racial?
:agree:
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - sekker - 10-21-2017
GuyGene wrote:
[quote=DP]
Jeez, does everything have to racial?
:agree:
I was asking the same thing, and not trying to be political.
I think Speedy has the best answer.
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - 3d - 10-21-2017
Why are nurses mostly female?
For whatever reason, not many men choose to study/train to be a nurse. There are male nurses. Just a very small percentage in the hiring pool.
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - NewtonMP2100 - 10-21-2017
DP wrote:
Jeez, does everything have to racial?
....if you are white, then no...but if you are not then yes.....because that is reality....
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - apocketfulofwry - 10-21-2017
Worst umpires:
C.B. Bucknor
Laz Diaz
Angel Hernandez
Case closed.
Oh, wait.
Joe West is just as bad.
I guess you'll have to ask the Good Ol' Boys Network for the real answer.
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - sekker - 10-21-2017
3d wrote:
Why are nurses mostly female?
For whatever reason, not many men choose to study/train to be a nurse. There are male nurses. Just a very small percentage in the hiring pool.
That's a circular argument.
Nursing has never locked men out of its club; the history of nursing is tied to everything from nuns and the lack of opportunity for women to be physicians.
Re: Why are baseball umpires almost all white males? - sekker - 10-21-2017
I also realize that the umps in the post season are there due to seniority. Hence, they are older - and the demographics were likely highly skewed when their cohort started in baseball.
This article from 2007 says the reason almost all umps start with little league etc, and those are almost all men:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2007/03/women_in_black.html
More from 2010:
https://www.sbnation.com/2010/5/18/1478067/mlb-umpires-white-american-male
2015 - the NFL named its first female ref. Baseball is still years away:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/16/baseball-female-umpire_n_7064220.html
Women have only been allowed to be considered to be an ump since 1972, when a woman named Bernie Gera won that right via a lawsuit.
Bottom line: I expect to see white males as umps for the 'World' Series for most of the rest of my life.
Interesting.