On the NPR sports program “Only a Game” this morning, while interviewing the author of Uneven Playing Field (?), a book on racism in sports, the author pointed out how wildly wrong many people’s estimates are of the total number of African-American professional athletes there are in this country. “All sports, all teams,” the host added. Can you guess within an order of magnitude?

To see the answer, drag select the seemingly-blank space between the x’s:

X one thousand, two hundred X

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