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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
Was the competition in the Negro leagues equal to major leagues at the time?
If the answer is yes makes sense to me.
If not the records will be meaningless
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One could reasonably ask if the competition in the Major Leagues was equal to the negro leagues. The ship goes both ways. What is undeniable is all of those leagues had players who could play in the counterpart league. And all those leagues had players who wouldn’t make it in a combined league.
Not sure how people can say this is rewriting history. It’s history that HAPPENED and is now being put in to the books where they belong. As long as you agree that the negro leagues were ‘major’ leagues. Which, again, was determined by MLB in 2020. Debate that if you want. But if they are, then of course the records belong in the books.
One could also say that ALL of the records prior to 1947 are meaningless because the players across all leagues weren’t playing against the best possible competition.