Immigrant Contributions in the NBA and Major League Baseball
In the 2013-14 season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) set a record with 90 international players, representing 20 percent of the players on the opening-night NBA rosters, compared to 21 international players (and 5 percent of rosters) in 1992. Professional baseball started blending foreign-born players with native-born talent earlier than the NBA. On the 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) opening-day roster there were 213 foreign-born players, representing 25 percent of the total, an increase of 2 percentage points from an NFAP analysis of MLB rosters performed in 2006.
National Foundation for American Policy. (2014). Immigrant Contributions in the NBA and Major League Baseball. Retrieved from http://nfap.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/NFAP-Policy-Brief.Immigrants-in-NBA-and-MLB.JUNE-2014.pdf