Record Books To Be Rewritten As MLB Adopts Negro League Stats

[Roy C]

You can talk "should" until the cows come home. Should is not happened.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Baseball rules get changed all the time. Until 1901 foul balls were not counted as strikes. They weren't anything.

early days a walk was considered a hit...think how that helped the batting avg.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Have any of you crying considered, for one moment, that the Negro Leagues were a better competition than the Major Leagues?

That should make your heads explode

what do you base that on?.....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Maybe black players belonged in the MLB

But they were not MLB players

The Negro Leagues were not MLB

realistically neither was the period from 1871 till 1919......way to many differences....

 

[Mac-7]

realistically neither was the period from 1871 till 1919......way to many differences....

Ok, I guess so

But rewriting the record books to include the Negro League is not right

 

[leftwinger]

early days a walk was considered a hit...think how that helped the batting avg.....

Because "MLB" had different rules or eras does not mean you mingle in uncontrolled data from any Tom Dick & Harry. MLB kept it's own data, made it's own rules and played it's own league games under League rules. Best players were identifiable by competing in MLB not in company picnic games.

 

[Mac-7]

Because "MLB" had different rules or eras does not mean you mingle in uncontrolled data from any Tom Dick & Harry. MLB kept it's own data, made it's own rules and played it's own league games under League rules. Best players were identifiable by competing in MLB not in company picnic games.

This is just a form of reparations by guilt-ridden white libs

 

[odanny]

what do you base that on?.....

An all black league also had great athletes in it.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Because "MLB" had different rules or eras does not mean you mingle in uncontrolled data from any Tom Dick & Harry. MLB kept it's own data, made it's own rules and played it's own league games under League rules. Best players were identifiable by competing in MLB not in company picnic games.

the negro baseball league played in stadiums....

 

[Harry Dresden]

An all black league also had great athletes in it.

sure there was but so did the white leagues....

 

[odanny]

sure there was but so did the white leagues....

Everyone thinks the Negro League was somehow inferior and their records don’t belong with the all white league, but maybe the competition was equal, or even better.

 

[Mac-7]

An all black league also had great athletes in it.

Then let their records stand for the league they played in

But not for a league where they didnt play

 

[Mac-7]

Everyone thinks the Negro League was somehow inferior and their records don’t belong with the all white league, but maybe the competition was equal, or even better.

They dont belong because they didnt play each other

 

[StatesRightsForever]

Everyone thinks the Negro League was somehow inferior and their records don’t belong with the all white league, but maybe the competition was equal, or even better.

Maybe, but the negro league stats are very suspect. We just don't know. Anyway - i'm sick of the wokkies rewriting history all the time.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

One thing about the Negro Leagues that can be measured accurately today is that the NAACP, BET, the democrat party, etc., all learned that desegregation is bad for business.

 

[Roy C]

ty cobb wasnt a racist.....he said he did not care if minorities played....cap anson is the one who prevented it from happening in the late 1800's...

I think the Anson legacy is overstated. The rival American League arose and they declined to sign any black players.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Everyone thinks the Negro League was somehow inferior and their records don’t belong with the all white league, but maybe the competition was equal, or even better.

it was probably equal.....good players so so players....

 

[Harry Dresden]

I think the Anson legacy is overstated. The rival American League arose and they declined to sign any black players.

is it?....everything i have read about it said he stated that he would not step on a field with a black player....and they were talking about letting them play when he made that statement.....other players apparently lined up with him....i would like to know what he was scared of?....

 

[Roy C]

is it?....everything i have read about it said he stated that he would not step on a field with a black player....and they were talking about letting them play when he made that statement.....other players apparently lined up with him....i would like to know what he was scared of?....

Yes, he was one guy. The rival American League could have sign blacks to further dent the National League, but they did not.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yes, he was one guy. The rival American League could have sign blacks to further dent the National League, but they did not.

they were a new league.....maybe they didnt want the bullshit that would accompany that....