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As MLB changes its records, Josh Gibson, not Ty Cobb, is all-time batting leader
The Athletic NYT ^
| 5/28/24
| Tyler Kepner
Posted on 05/28/2024 8:29:55 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther
Historical revisionism continues unabated...
Communism on an unstoppable march...
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:29:03 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
To: SuperLuminal
This won’t get a single new person to go to, or to watch a baseball game.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:30:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Round Earther
What’s next, proclaim Meadowlark Lemon as the greatest scorer in basketball history?
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:31:15 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Round Earther
“But history evolves.”?
Truth is a constant. History “evolves” as the Marxist/Stalinist rewrite the history books. For the NYT history as it’s occurring is rewritten to further the ‘cause’.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:36:41 PM PDT
by
KamperKen
(u)
To: Round Earther
I’m going to get some heat for this: Gibson was a victim of actual discrimination, not the junk we are seeing today. Cobb was amazing. Both crushed it. So who was actually better? We will never know.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:37:12 PM PDT
by
piytar
To: Round Earther
Along with the NBA and NFL years earlier, I also quit watching MLB Baseball and my Seattle Mariners when they had 'gay family night' at the ballpark, who needs this crap, certainly not me.
Now it's down to college football. Will they also go woke?
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:39:04 PM PDT
by
PROCON
(Sic Semper Tyrannis)
To: dfwgator
Professional athletics, like almost every other institution in what used to be America, has been fully absorbed into the hive-mind of the Left. Thus the need to constantly virtue-signal. Give it time, Jackie Robinson will eventually be declared a god by MLB, and the stats of the Rainbow Flag softball league of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco will be added to the official records.
To: piytar
Gibson was the 2nd best player ever, but ruth is the 1st.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:43:10 PM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
To: Scott from the Left Coast
Jackie did more for Civil Rights than any other man. Great ballplayer and man.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:44:11 PM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
To: cowboyusa
Jackie was also a Republican.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:45:00 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: piytar
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:47:17 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
To: dfwgator
People get real tochy about Gibson and Ruth, because Gibson was wrongly kept out of the MLB. But Ruth is the better all around player. Using today’s fences, he could have hit 1, 254 Home Runs!! And he was a Hall Of Fame Pitcher as well.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:48:54 PM PDT
by
cowboyusa
(YESHUA IS KING AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
To: piytar
So who was actually better? We will never know.We can guess but we'll never know.
To: piytar
You aren't wrong, but we all know why this is being done and who is behind it.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:57:38 PM PDT
by
Major Matt Mason
(To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
To: piytar
Cobb’s shoes gave him an edge.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:58:08 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
To: PBRCat
How true. In some places the Negro League games were considered not important enough for any of the local press to even send a sports reporter. Games that made it into print in many cases were self reported by the teams, or from second, and third hand information.
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posted on
05/28/2024 9:58:41 PM PDT
by
Hillarys Gate Cult
(“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
To: Hillarys Gate Cult
Statistics from the Negro league were unreliable. How can you rewrite the record book with questionable numbers?
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posted on
05/28/2024 10:05:59 PM PDT
by
Stevenfo
To: piytar
I frequently hear that some white players didn’t have to play against black players, a true statement. I’ve never heard that some black players didn’t have to play against white players, which is also a true statement. Cobb and Gibson may have both benefited from playing against diluted talent.
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posted on
05/28/2024 10:07:50 PM PDT
by
Tymesup
To: Round Earther
I really don’t care about which dead guy stole the most bases.
To: Round Earther
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posted on
05/28/2024 11:21:22 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(. A disease in the public mind we're enduring…Alina Habba is fine as grits I'd drink her bathwater)
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