Oh so you are merely citing facts? You don't cite facts, you are expressing opinion.
You don't know the caliber of players in the Negro League. I don't have to be an expert on the league. The FACT that they were prevented from competing for a position in the majors doesn't mean they were "for the most part minor league caliber."
You should spend some time applying your own concept of facts to yourself before you indicate opinion as such.
The sound of the bat was an eyewitness report cited on a Bob Costas show on HBO. The fact according to the witness was that only Josh Gibson and Ruth created the same sound when they hit the ball.
That's their fact.
"You don't cite facts, you are expressing opinion.
You don't know the caliber of players in the Negro League"
I don't know the caliber of INDIVIDUAL players but I know the caliber of the group: THAT is a constant (unless you regard blacks as racially superior to all others)
At 9 or 10% of the population at the time, the number who would have made it into the majors IS VANISHINGLY SMALL!
That's a fact, friend whether YOU admit it or not.
As for that 'crack of the bat' rubbish that you admit to me is lore: I'll take an audio clip of any such sound (since I work with pro audio) and change your perception of its heft, volume, density and force simply by altering the distance from the source and the size of the "soundstage" the number of people present as well as a host of other variables. CONVERSLEY I'll make two totally different bat sounds the same in perception. These variables all obtain in real life with ALL of the things we hear every day INCLUDING the crack of bats.
But then that's all pretty time consuming since the two players in question have STATS--there, there's that word again.