[LeoMcNeil]

I would disagree with the notion that baseball requires more discipline than football. Historically the negro leagues offered very competitive baseball.

[Salvavida]

Read Cripplecreek's post. He's right: there is no safety net for baseball prospects. Screw up? Fine. There are a hundred Dominicans that are not afraid of hard work. And hundreds more Venezuelans, and Cubans, if the Dominican isn't good enough.

And I think we can agree that the era of the negro league was decidedly different than today; thus an unfair comparison. The negro community isn't producing the men that rose from that era: that is my point.