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Baseball teams making a mockery of Selig Rule
The Selig Rule is a sham, a mandatory decree to promote minority hiring that conveniently ignores the mandate part, and the active disregard of it by Major League Baseball teams reached its nadir Monday when the Miami Marlins followed the path of their brethren and hired another white guy with zero managerial experience without bothering to interview another candidate.
'Nearly 30 percent of major league players are Latino. Three percent of managers – Atlanta’s Fredi Gonzalez, all alone – are the same. As scant as African-American players are these days, at just 8.3 percent, the percentage of black managers is even lower. Seattle’s Lloyd McClendon is the one and only. Among executives, the numbers aren’t much better. There are two black presidents of baseball operations (the Marlins’ Mike Hill and the Chicago White Sox’s Kenny Williams) and four minority GMs: Farhan Zaidi, Dave Stewart, Jeff Luhnow and Ruben Amaro Jr.
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