Morning Hot Reads: Hiring Practice

The ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION goes with, "Baseball’s hiring practices at highest levels fail to honor Hank Aaron." This season in MLB, there are two Black managers and one Black GM. The lack of opportunities for Blacks to be managers and GMs "was dear to the late baseball legend." Aaron "might take some encouragement in the work" that the Braves have done. Three fellowship programs have been "established for underrepresented groups in the game, two in baseball operations and one on the club’s business side." Two are "targeted for people of color and the third was established for female candidates." At the top of the Braves’ ladder, the "intent to provide opportunities for deserving candidates of color seems clear." However, baseball has a "lot of work to do yet in filling the game’s highest ranks with Blacks, all worthy candidates of color and women." Both the manager and GM groups fall "well below the representation of minorities on the field."

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