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Originally Posted by djwhokid
What a silly thread.
An asterisk? If you are going to put an * after every record of alleged performance enhancement then you need to go back in the era of Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and put an * on their records because all the best players were locked away in the negro league.
Come on. Competing in a sport without black people is like saying a black person had the highest SAT score when no Asian students took the test.
No *... that is just absurd.
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What is ABSURD is your statement that "all the best players were locked away in the negro league."
Yes, the negro leagues [as they were called then] did have a number of super stars who would have made the big leagues had the competition been open; and several of these would have excelled.
However, you don't presume that MLB prior to 1947 was a collective minor league of also rans with a superior class banned from competition.
Proof? Take any credible study of the best who ever played at the MLB level in the modern age [1901-present], and the list of perhaps a hundred or mor will have a solid distribution of black players indeed. However, they do not displace or replace players [even sabermetrically reconstituted ones] who played the game before, during and after the ban, who wer just clearly "the best."
I do agree regarding the *. Leave it where it belongs, with the grammarians and editors.