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Pelican, i don't think anyone is challenging the idea that the players weren't talented. It's the amount of games, the talent level of some of these barnstorming teams they played and the fact that a lot of these games were exhibition in nature. On top of of all that, the statistics and record keeping were shoddy at best. Saying "Seamheads" for some reason seems to mean with 100% certainty that Hoss Walker went 1 for 4 in August of 1941, even though a quick search will show that even the people accumulating the Negro League Stats say its not very accurate.
The new ERA season leader is based off of 28 innings. You know that small a sample size throws the whole thing off.
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