Relationship Between Players’ Salary and Racial Discrimination in Major League Baseball

Racism in professional sports is always a problem and the Professional Sports Committee is doing its utmost to eliminate racial discrimination both within and outside the field. Major League is a professional sports league with history of racial discrimination. In relation to this, if racial discrimination affects the salary of a major league baseball player, that is doubtful. If so, how wage and racial discrimination affect other factors related to racial discrimination may affect wages.

• Major League minimum wage of $ 400,000 in 2010 is managed by the latest agreement between the Major League Baseball Players Association and the 30 Major League Baseball team owners. The minimum value of the 2011 league is not yet known; it is linked to the future growth of living expenses. Players who acquired a degree in Community College are already investing in his education; he finds jobs using his community college degrees, continues education at a four-year university, or is a professional You can be. Community college graduates may cost up to $ 100,000 to complete a four-year degree program at a private university. After acquiring his bachelor's degree, his entry level salary ranges from $ 35 thousand to $ 55 thousand, depending on grade or course, players may still need 3-4 seasons in minor leagues. not.

Racism in professional sports is always a problem and the Professional Sports Committee is doing its utmost to eliminate racial discrimination both within and outside the field. Major League is a professional sports league with history of racial discrimination. In relation to this, if racial discrimination affects the salary of a major league baseball player, that is doubtful. If so, how does racial discrimination affect your salary?

Minority workers in many industries deal with discrimination between wages and employment. In a major league, it is generally assumed that fair employment practices are used and fair wages are provided because each player's contract includes intense negotiation process. However, previous studies have shown that wages and employment discrimination exist in several recent periods. Due to implicit bias in productivity variables, most industries are hard to measure racial discrimination. However, in baseball games, productivity can be easily measured by aggressive and defensive performance statistics. It is completely irrelevant to race. In this article, we are trying to judge whether there is racial wage and employment discrimination in the outfield of the major league baseball game in the United States by using regression analysis based on human capital theory and chi-squared analysis.

Racial discrimination in Major League: Can it exist when productivity is very clear? Will Irwin '04 Illinois Wesleyan University