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Originally Posted by mjekase
Black people have made up an even smaller percentage of the overall population (about 12%) since the beginning of the 20th century. The only way you'd be able to prove any correlation between that 18.1 number and the quality of the players is if you knew what percentage of each demographic actually played baseball, or tried to make it to the major leagues. Which is impossible.
Also, Ted Williams famously spoke about how great Gibson was in his Hall of Fame speech. I guess we wasn't making sense either.
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What on earth are you rambling on about? I never said Gibson wasn’t great. I said there’s no way he hits .372 for his career if he got to play against everyone and not just a small portion of the population. You don’t think Larry Bird would’ve had better stats if only had to play against white people? It’s the same concept.
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