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Originally Posted by Snakster66
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.
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They were not "Major League Baseball", just the same as the World Football League was not the NFL.
"Major League Baseball" is a specific entity, that the Negro League did not belong to. They (Negro leagues) had ZERO involvement with Major League Baseball.
They were never invited to join under the umbrella of Major League Baseball and to now suddenly say they were part of Major League Baseball, is sports-washing of the highest order.
The exact same argument applies to women's sports. They were denied entry to "Men's Sport Teams/Leagues" ... is that not the exact same "discrimination"? It's OK to discriminate based on sex, but not on color?
"Major League Baseball" has absolutely no right whatsoever, to use the names of people who never played the game under their umbrella. To do so, defies common sense, diminishes the accomplishments of those who did play under that umbrella and panders to those trying to whitewash American history.