MLB Finally Wakes Up

Raz is a white tube sock.

So what's your theory, Slacker? It's not that GIG guy, is it?

Josh hit over 800 HR's, and Barry Bonds correctly acknowledged this in front of the press after hitting #756

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The poor scheduling and record-keeping, unreliable data and inferior conditions are not the fault of the Black players. Indeed, no one over the past half-century has questioned their ability. In addition to their exclusion from playing against their white peers, the totality of conditions stands as embarrassing testimony to what the major leagues forced Black players to endure, and that cannot be erased with a procedural merger a century later.

 

Baseball has sent the message: Generations of Black men who were denied the opportunity to play against the world's best competition might have had to carry the devastating price of segregation with them to their graves, but the institution does not. Instead of accepting its history as a reminder of its past and its human cost, to remain as an institutional conscience, baseball took the easy way out. It decided to make itself feel better by rewriting the history books.

 

MLB's news release referred to the decision as "correcting an oversight." But the Negro Leagues were not the result of an "oversight," and to frame their exclusion as such is stunningly offensive. It was a deliberate system. The major leagues destroyed a half-century of Black baseball history, and baseball history in general, with one unrelenting purpose in mind: to do their part in reinforcing Black inferiority to the rest of the country.

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30540089/mlb-add-negro-leagues-offic...

Thought for sure this would be a Cleveland Indians thread

No, we're not offering congratulations to the Cleveland baseball team for finally making right on what they've ignorantly protested for decades. 

So every baseball fan over 35 or so has known about "The Negro Leagues" and the eventual desegregation and / or assimilation of Black players into Major League Baseball.

How come this is considered something new ??

Hank Aaron and Willie Mays were considered Baseball Stars decades ago.  Dozens of other Black baseball players.

Explain to me why this is something new,  or a topic of information formerly not in public view for Decades;  impress me with something I have not heard of in the 1970's.

>>>  Generations of Black men who were denied the opportunity to play against the world's best competition

Generations of white men who were denied the opportunity to play against the world's best competition...

FTFY

BSM .... Black stats matter