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Baseball scores A for race hiring, C+ for gender
April 25, 2012
(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Major League Baseball received a high grade for racial diversity among its employees but a middling mark when it comes to hiring women.

Baseball received its fourth straight A for race hiring in the annual report by Richard Lapchick's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida.

MLB's grade for gender hiring fell to C+ from B- last year and a B in 2010. Baseball got an F among team vice presidents and a D among senior administration.

"It was primarily at the team level," Lapchick said Wednesday. "There was a
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