You mean like this?:
Posted on 12/17/2020 6:40:12 PM PST by foreverfree
Many radio game announcers would refer to Negro League stats when covering a game. White Sox as among the first to also brake the ban.
Wrong.
The Atlanta Crackers were white (and played their last season in Atlanta Stadium, later known as Atlanta - Fulton County Stadium) before being dispaced by the Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta/Vinings Braves.
You are actually thinking of the Atlanta Black Falcons.
If you had seen the players for the two teams, you would NOT have been confused about which team for which each played.
This is really only a problem because of Interleague Play, which is why I stopped watching baseball for 20+ years.
Before Interleague Play, all the records outside of the World Series were contained within the leagues themselves. Yes, Ruth’s HR records and Gehrig’s Iron Man record are recognized as all MLB, but the vast majority of stats: batting crowns, ERA leader, etc. are thought of in terms of the player’s league, as the leagues never played each other outside of the World Series.
Since the Negro Leagues were not included in the World Series, those records are untouched. The rest of the records can be regarded as within their leagues, where they are certainly valid.
The kind of all MLB records likely to go to a Negro Leaguer (e.g. most strikeouts in a game) are likely to be followed only by hardcore baseball stat fans who will know the context.
I loved when Imus would have the Marge Schott impersonator on!
Should have done this years ago.
At this point, however, I’m not that interested anymore in professional sports for a variety of reasons.
I’ll watch a few minutes here or there, but meh.
Now the color barrier is in basketball and football.
Baseball... I seem to recall that stupid sport... before the world went crazy even I used to watch that nonsense...
But what of the “Old Negro Space Program” ?
But what of the “Old Negro Space Program” ?
My Bingo Long rookie card just quadrupled in value
We saw the Negro League exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame. One artifact I remember was an excerpt from a medical journal published at the end of WW2 arguing against integrating the Major Leagues on the grounds Blacks are athletically INFERIOR to Whites. This is what “modern settled science” told us a relatively short 75 yrs ago. Never mind that Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Satchell Paige and many others already blew that myth to smithereens. Now “modern settled science” tells us man made climate change is real and masks save lives. Trust the science 🤔🙄😖😖
Other than it making you nauseous for some unspecified reason, you have failed utterly to articulate any justification at all for your objection, thus forgoing any effort at persuading anyone to agree with your position. Perhaps you’d now like to rectify your omission for our benefit.
Cracker will be fine. No such thing as racism against whites. /s
Yes, as a matter of fact there is.
Depending on how these stats are reported, it could taint the
entire database.
Leagues play within a closed environment against a set ‘quality’
of other teams. When you toss in a non-like field of
competition, it skews comparisons.
Team X plays against 12 teams that eleven other teams play
against. In this closed environment stats are open for
fair comparison.
If you toss in teams that played against a different set
of leagues, with inferior or even superior competition, you
have just opened yourself up to making some teams and
players look worse or better by comparison.
Looks like we have a new homerun champion, Josh Gibson.
Wut?..he ate right and exercised...
Now they flipped it that whites are inferior athletes. Also horseshit.
Actually, no. Apparently his Negro League career only included 240+ home runs. All the myths about him hitting 800 home runs include off-season barnstorming tours that were common back in those days but have no relevance to league records.
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