"Stick with putting down Barry Bonds, where it's deserved. You are not an expert on the Negro League."
But I bet you are?
The crack of a bat? WTF does THAT mean? Where did YOU hear this "crack"? YOU heard Ruths bat? Gibsons? Or are you repeating lore? That's what I thought.
Baseball is a game of STATS. Stats flow from performance. Babe Ruth in the negro leagues would have been an unstoppable force due to the fact that the people around him were for the most part minor league caliber.
Plenty of blacks got screwed out of big league careers. I am also willing to assume that the level of ability and raw talent among those blacks was a jot or two higher than it would be if you tried to assemble an all black league today BUT they played The Game and in doing so they did what they did and and THOSE facts speak.
And oh yeah: Don't tell people what they can comment on and what they can't comment on ESPECIALLY if the basis of your argument otherwise doesn't actually contain a fact.
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.