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Originally Posted by Westheim
Careful, rudel, you white segregationist! 
I'd be in favor of this until (if at all) the Negro League stats can be completed. |
Sadly I don't think this will ever happen. Because blacks were so marginalized, many newspapers did not cover the games. So it was up to black-owned papers to keep the stats. And much of that data has been lost to time and will never be recovered.
Also, you had many of the league's best players go and play in places like Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican for a season or multiple seasons.
The Negro Leagues were always on unsteady financial feet and because blacks were so poorly treated in America they could go to those other places and make more money and be treated better.