Southern's Roger Cador named to MLB diversity committee

HEAD COACH ROGER CADOR
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball has created a task force that will study how to increase diversity in the game, especially among black players.

Commissioner Bud Selig announced the committee Wednesday (April 10th).

In less than a week, baseball will celebrate the 66th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. A new movie titled “42” focuses on the Hall of Famer.

The 18-member committee includes representatives from club ownership, the players’ union, minor league and college baseball, the MLB scouting bureau and other areas.

Hall of Famer Frank Robinson and former major league manager Jerry Manuel are among the members.

MLB says about 8.5 percent of players on this year’s opening day rosters identified themselves as African-American or black.

That’s around half the number from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s.

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Roger Cador calls his role on MLB committee ‘a huge honor’

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  As the Southern baseball team took its shot at top-ranked LSU on back-to-back nights this week, coach Roger Cador joined a committee of high-ranking baseball officials who together will study ways to make black players more prominent in America’s pastime.

Cador is part of a task force appointed by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to create ideas on how to diversity a sport that has struggled more and more to attract black athletes.

The committee had its first meeting Wednesday in Milwaukee.

Although disappointed that he was not in the dugout for Southern’s games this week, Cador said he believes the initiative of the task force could be a game-changer.

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