The racial segregation of individuals into specific occupational positions is considered within the realm of professional baseball. With individual playing careers as the unit of observation, marked stability in racial segregation through the sixties and into the seventies is noted. The explanatory merits of three diffe rent theoretical perspectives which may account for this stability — human capi tal, discrimination and socialization — are tested.
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