Bill James, in his essay "Revolution" in his book THIS TIME LET'S NOT EAT THE BONES (pages 398-413), does the math and concludes that a population base of 4 million people (not men or women, but people) is enough people to provide suffcient talent for one full-quality major league team. Beyond that size of population base, James states "It's making a distinction in talent which is unimaginably trivial."
1920 U.S. Population 105.7 million - or enough to support 26 major league quality teams
1920 U.S. Black Population 10.5 million
1920 U.S. Non-black population = 95.2 million, or enough to support 23 (and almost 24) major league quality teams
In 1920 there were only 16 major league teams. Based on James' work there was excess major league quality *white* talent in 1920.
Population data from
http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080/pds/af...r/timeline.pdf
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