{"id":57,"date":"2003-07-07T13:12:06","date_gmt":"2003-07-07T17:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tradermike.net\/movethecrowd\/2003\/07\/black_hispanic_players_hold_up_better_in_heat\/"},"modified":"2003-07-07T13:12:06","modified_gmt":"2003-07-07T17:12:06","slug":"black_hispanic_players_hold_up_better_in_heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/07\/black_hispanic_players_hold_up_better_in_heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Black, Hispanic Players Hold Up Better in Heat?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dusty Baker may have played himself with this statement – Black, Hispanic players hold up better in heat<\/a>. We’ve started a little discussion about that in a previous post<\/a>, but I thought this was worthy of its own post. My view is that Dusty is generally correct about darker skinned people handling the sun better because of their higher levels of melanin. But the way he went about saying it was all wrong. Thoughts?<\/p>\n

Oh, I should add that given the climate in North America, and the amount of exertion in baseball, what he’s saying is pointless in regard to baseball. It’s not like they’re playing full-court basketball outdoors in the middle of the desert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dusty Baker may have played himself with this statement – Black, Hispanic players hold up better in heat. We’ve started a little discussion about that in a previous post, but I thought this was worthy of its own post. My view is that Dusty is generally correct about darker skinned people handling the sun better… Continue reading Black, Hispanic Players Hold Up Better in Heat?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16,"url":"http:\/\/www.michaelseneadza.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/why_is_that\/","url_meta":{"origin":57,"position":0},"title":"Why is That?","date":"June 25, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"The article 'No Outrage Over Foreign Invasion', raises the issue of why there is such protest over black teenagers going into the NBA draft, but no protests over the European teens going pro. 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