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FORT WORTH, Texas — As Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day this week, the current percentage of its rosters that features Black players creeps closer to the same figure when Jackie broke baseball’s color barrier on April 15, 1947. On MLB’s opening day in 2024, 6% of the players on its 30 rosters were Black; 57 men. One fewer than Venezuela. That figure exists despite the best ...

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