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I sincerely don't understand your infatuation against Josh Gibson. Is someone paying you? I can't think of any other reason really. Or is the paying aspect only when you support the naming of the award?
I am glad though that you actually admit that the number of players that would be from the Negro Leagues in Major League Baseball would be higher than 20%. I said that was a conservative number based only on % of population. That number is probably closer to 50%, since you conveniently forget that no Latin players were allowed to play in MLB either. Well, 2 or 3 maybe. Today's demographics are a little more than half of the players are white. So similar splits means closer to half of the players before the color line would be white.
Using your logic, and I agree with it 100% I might add, I just wanted someone else to be the one to say it, almost half of Major League Baseball was not major league talent that any white player was playing against. Or do you not agree with your own logic? That cannot be said for the Negro Leagues since Latin players were fully playing there.
And using your logic, which is brilliant by the way in the admittance that there would be a much higher percent of let's call them non-white players in the majors, means that nearly half of the players in MLB were minor league caliber. Zero sum game, or is that not the way it works?
All this noise from you and people like you to not have an award named for the best player to ever play in the Negro Leagues but who never got to play in MLB, and by that give credit to the over 3,000 others denied that opportunity (I've said this I don't know how many times, do you not know how to read, it's not about 1 man) and to acknowledge the fact that racists cheated baseball fans and the country for decades and that was wrong.
All this noise from you and people like you that can't acknowledge that no white player in major or minor league baseball for that matter EVER had to play under the stress of jim crow or the hatred that probably people like you or at least people who think like you felt about them. It's pretty obvious you do, because someone with any inkling of understanding would get all of this.
All this noise from people like you to discredit a league that was in fact built the same exact way as white professional baseball with half it's talent at least capable of playing in MLB by your own logic, even though I had to let you say it. Because if I did, I'm just an echo chamber. Well, welcome to the echo chamber.
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"About race, I'm going to say this. If you're green or purple or whatever color, you can play for me if I think you can help this ballclub.That's all I'm going to say about race."
Leo Durocher, New York Giants manager, 1946
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