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Originally Posted by Westheim
...Rest assured I've read plenty about the history of baseball since finding to the game a decade ago, and about US history in general for many years before that...
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Living it and reading about it for a mere ten years, from thousands of miles away, are very different things.
I wonder if you would feel differently if you had access to old black newspapers that ran articles about games, teams and leagues the "mainstream" press didn't regularly cover? Or access to people who had actually seen Negro League teams in action, against each other and against white barnstorming teams? Or would you somehow consider what they said to be less valid than "official" (i.e., white) sources?
I have found that this is a common problem among military historians when dealing with African affairs. They simply ignore any sources if the publications are African and not American or British. I can't begin to tell you how many times I have heard that information about a particular African country is "difficult to find."