Major League Baseball: Racial Diversity

Racial diversity: Racial diversity among senior team administrators improved to 19.9 per cent from 17 per cent. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. MLB's central offices have 30.8 per cent people of colour. The sport's overall score of 92.5 points equaled its top mark in 2010, and racial hiring received an A grade for the fifth straight year. Gender hiring remained a C , with its points increasing from 75.2 to 76.6. NEW YORK, N.Y. - While Major League Baseball teams improved racial diversity in hiring senior administrators, the employment of women is still lagging, according to the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida. "The most notable trends are that a team level there was substantial improvement, and that hasn't been the case over the years," Lapchick said. "It's still significantly behind the major league offices in terms of percentage of people of colour, but that we thought that was a really positive trend." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.