In the 1980s salary discrimination was a big issue especially in the NBA. By the 1990s it was on a steady decline. In baseball and football in 1990s there was hardly any evidence of salary discrimination. With this information salary discrimination, in sports is not as big of a problem as it once was (Kern, 2000, pg. 126-127). On the other hand customer discrimination still has a long way to travel before it can truly be considered eliminated as stated by Kern (2000, pg. 127). From where we have started in sport discrimination, we have improved greatly. We are nowhere near able to say it has been eliminated in sports altogether, but the improvements we have made are remarkable. For example blacks were not able to join sports until the 1940s, now they are the highest paid athletes in the United
In the 1980s salary discrimination was a big issue especially in the NBA. By the 1990s it was on a steady decline. In baseball and football in 1990s there was hardly any evidence of salary discrimination. With this information salary discrimination, in sports is not as big of a problem as it once was (Kern, 2000, pg. 126-127). On the other hand customer discrimination still has a long way to travel before it can truly be considered eliminated as stated by Kern (2000, pg. 127). From where we have started in sport discrimination, we have improved greatly. We are nowhere near able to say it has been eliminated in sports altogether, but the improvements we have made are remarkable. For example blacks were not able to join sports until the 1940s, now they are the highest paid athletes in the United