Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Alberta's Child

>>>I figured that was his/her point, but then how many black pitchers has Bonds faced in his career? And how many of them were so good that they had even a minor impact on any modern player's home run totals?

Don't know how many he faced, but everyone that he did face was forced to compete in the open market for their position. An individual pitcher will not have a large impact on an individual player's number, but if the overall quality of pitching in the league goes up, then overall batting statistics are going to go down.
If we were to ban all of the Latina Americans from playing today, don't you think the quality of pitching would decline and batting stats improve?


73 posted on 05/08/2006 2:33:03 PM PDT by NC28203
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 60 | View Replies ]


To: NC28203

The difference is that Latin-Americans aren't necessarily much more or less likely to be playing any specific position or positions. There was a time when banning Latin Americans would have had almost no impact at any position except shortstop, but that's obviously changed over the years.


93 posted on 05/08/2006 2:44:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 73 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson