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Originally Posted by TomVeal
That's right, and the reasons for the Dominican Republic's outsized contribution to baseball are well known. Are there any similarly powerful factors that would explain how the black tenth of the U.S. population could, by hypothesis, have had as large a pool of Major League caliber players as the other ninety percent?
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I doubt that baseball players were evenly distrubuted geographically.
Where were most baseball players from that era from?
I'd guess the east and south.
I'd also guess those areas had higher proportions of African Americans
I'd also guess that including that factor would decrease the disparity.