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Originally Posted by thehef
Got it. I'm just wondering about playing with the draft option off but manually intervening to mostly stock the 4 new teams with NeL players so they retain the flavor of NeL teams. Like maybe keep the biggest NeL stars on the 4 NeL teams, but not concern myself with the who (what color) the rest of players are on those 4 teams, and also not be concerned with non-top-tier NeLers ending up on the original 16 teams... I dunno, just kicking it around...  |
You were thinking on the same lines as I was for this. I stand to be corrected, but back then, it seems to me that there was less objection (minus Landis et al) to playing against full squads of black players than integrating teams/teammates. So if one wants integration but a bit of reality's inertia mixed in, I think your approach makes sense, that these extra teams (especially one named Black Barons) would be predominantly black at the outset and integrated over time, along with the other established teams through trades, drafting and free agency. I can only imagine enterprising Rube Foster stocking his team with most of the stars from the start