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Originally Posted by diesel230
Get hoarse.
“Baseball is a double-entry account system in which every action of the offense is mirrored by an action of the defense,” explained John Thorn, MLB’s official historian and chairperson of the Negro Leagues Statistical Review Committee. “An out registered by a batter must be secured in the field as well. So in absence of a box score, we cannot be sure that the Negro Leagues records will balance, and balance is the essence of the game
But as Thorn explained, without a box score, there is no way to statistically account for Mays’ “661st” home run ... or another one Retrosheet lists for him on Aug. 28 of that season. The Lexington Herald reported that Mays hit a three-run shot against the New York Cubans at Blue Grass Field in Lexington,
And That's just Willie Mays. Poor record keeping. You can white knight all you want
Never did I say the level of competition was lacking. MLB stats with 140-162 game seasons should not to altered with small sample sizes and poor statistical record keeping
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I agree with a lot of this.
Sample size is the main phrase here.
For example I would have no problem to equalize negro season stats with MLB, if 154 games would be brought together. So if say that took a negro player to combine the 1921-1925 stats together I would be pretty much ok with the results, because they played a similar number of games, and there was a similarity of the skills of the star players.
But we too know it is a big difference from a player hitting .356 in 140 games and a player hitting .450 in 24 games.
When sample size can be properly harmonized I would be fine with the complete integration...