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Tuesday 16 april 2019

Study:

Minority

hiring in

MLB ranks

similar to

previous

year

By AARON BEARD
AP Sports Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A
diversity report released
Monday on Major League
Baseball finds the sport
remaining largely on the
same footing from the pre-
vious year in racial and
gender hiring practices,
with the biggest area of
concern coming in the
front offices of league
teams.
The annual report card
from The Institute for Di-
versity and Ethics in Sport
(TIDES) at Central Florida
found slight fluctuations in
scores for racial and gen-
der hiring. The grade for ra-
cial hiring was an A-minus
with 89 points, up a point
from a year earlier, while
the grade for gender hiring
dropped one point to a 70
for a C.
The overall score was un-
changed at 79, a B-minus.
Richard Lapchick, the insti-
tute’s director and the lead
report author, has praised
racial and gender hiring
practices at the league’s
central office as the result
of diversity initiatives di- Ethiopia’s Worknesh Degefa
rected by Renee Tirado, a
league vice president serv- cruises to Boston Marathon title
ing as MLB’s chief diversity
and inclusion officer. The
goal now, Lapchick said, Worknesh Degefa, of Ethiopia, breaks the tape to win the
is having that overall em- women’s division of the 123rd Boston Marathon on Monday,
phasis “filtered down to April 15, 2019, in Boston.
the teams in a strong way Associated Press
so that the pipeline is built
in those teams.” Page 19

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