[Cool Papa Bell]

Yes, thank you guys! This is what it was supposed to be all about. An intelligent discussion about this issue. Raising awareness of an issue that has been pretty much buried for decades and decades, not what it initially turned into, which was the same racist commentary on why the Negro Leagues were not major leagues. I'm glad many of you are more aware of history, most of you seem to understand the difficulties in developing the statistics into something more comprehensive and defining. Most of you realize that the statistics are not the issue here and that is good to know. This has nothing to do with foreign statistics being included in Major League Baseball. Nothing to do with a league like the Federal League even, which was started over ;money. It has to do with players not being allowed to play because of the color of their skin, virtually every facet of society bent against stopping them from succeeding, many segments of the media and civil society others bent towards suppressing anything positive and highlighting anything negative. If you do not think that all of that was disgusting, I feel for you. If you do not think that is not only un-American, it's inhuman, I feel for you. If you continue to think that no efforts matter, they are only thoughts and prayers, I feel for you. If you think that numbers are more important than fellow men and woman and an entire race of human beings,, I feel for you. If you think that sports in general is more important than highlighting the story of what these men went through and trying in every way you can to pay their efforts forward, then I feel for you. Because either you have lived a charmed life, or you have learned nothing from history and again, if those are the cases, I feel for you.