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The University of Central Florida (UCF) Forum is a weekly series of opinion columns presented by the UCF News & Information. The columns are the opinions of the writers, who serve on the UCF Forum panel of faculty members, staffers and students for a year. A new column is posted each Wednesday at UCF Today and then broadcast between 7:50 and 8 a.m. Sunday on WUCF-FM (89.9).
Publication Date
4-29-2015
Keywords
Major League Baseball; MLB report; Racial and Gender Report; Diversity and Ethics; Racial hiring; Gender hiring; Jackie Robinson; People of color; Diversity initiatives; Sport and society
Introduction
The 2015 Major League Baseball Racial and Gender Report Card recently released by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport shows the league had an A on the issue of racial hiring practices, a C/C+ for gender hiring practices, and an overall grade of B.
Subjects
Creator (Linked Data)
Lapchick, Richard Edward(VIAF); Lapchick, Richard Edward(LC)
Collection
Publisher
University of Central Florida
Source
https://today.ucf.edu/major-league-baseball-look-like-america/ (UCF Today: UCF Forum)
STARS Citation
Lapchick, Richard (2015). Does major league baseball look like America?. UCF Today, 2015-04-29. Retrieved from https://today.ucf.edu/major-league-baseball-look-like-america/
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