Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 09, 2004
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Idiots Write About Sports writes about the political contributions by the owners and executives of MLB teams.

This list does not surprise me. During the 50th anniversary celebration of Jackie Robinson's debut, I asked Bill James why black baseball players had not been as radical in the 1960's as their counter parts in football, track, boxing and basketball. Bill's explanation is that baseball is a very conservative game. The people who run and play the game tend to be to the right politically.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:28 AM | Management | TrackBack (1)
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Interesting.

Here's something else that I've noticed but can't back up statistically:

Baseball bloggers who'd like to one day write professionally for "big media" tend to skew to the left.

Baseball bloggers who are pure hobbyists with no intention/desire to quit their "day jobs" tend to skew moderate/middle to conservative.

Does this mirror the culture as a whole? Maybe, since typically those in the press tend to be more left leaning than the public at large.

Posted by: Edw at April 9, 2004 10:03 AM

But what happens when the baseball bloggers are employed full-time media professionals? (That's actually the odd case at Idiots Write About Sports, where Phil and I write and edit for a living -- just not about sports.)

I guess that makes us crazy libertarians. :-) Which we sort of are....

Thanks for the link, guys!

Posted by: Jason at April 9, 2004 01:38 PM

I dunno, I'd love to go "big media" if I could afford to quit my day job - in fact, I was writing for big media of a sort when I had my column at Projo, albeit in a mostly unpaid capacity - and I'm about as openly conservative as anybody in the baseball blogosphere. Maybe part of it is that people who (like me) have kids and mortgages tend to be more conservative, although I myself haven't changed much politically since I was a teenager.

Some of that perception may be a regional thing - Red Sox fans in the blogosphere tend to be left-leaning because they're New Englanders, and ditto for Yankee and Dodger fans who live near mass media centers.

Posted by: Crank at April 9, 2004 01:49 PM