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Originally Posted by Questdog
The ethnicity of the population and the ethnicity of ballplayers have very little in common with one another as far as the percentages taken up by the various groups.......
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I have used baseball Almanac to create a spreadsheet of player origins. They have a break down of players by US and foreign players by country. I have a spreadsheet for the 19th century but that is as far as I gotten as of now.
Baseball foreign %.pdf
Baseball foreign %2.pdf
Baseball foreign %3.pdf
Baseball almanac also breaks down US by state they born in. I have not calculated that data though. This will show the percentage of country origin for baseball players in the 19th century though. Note the country percentages are percent of foreign players not all players multiply foreign percent by the country percent to get the percent of all players for that country. Also this does not address ethnicity of the players only where they born. So there is denotation here of say Native Americans and Hispanics which were not barred like black players were.