Negro League Museum
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Did it bother you a couple of years back when Baseball Reference started their "Negro Leagues are Major Leagues" astroturfed campaign?
I thought it was such BS, and things like that were the death-by-a-thousand-cuts as to why I went from watching full games daily to stopping from following the sport altogether.
It's one thing to recognize the segregated leagues.
It's quite another to retcon history and pretend the level of play was equivalent to the Major Leagues at the time and retroactively treating 75 year old minor league statistics as canon by incorporating the statistics into the MLB annals as though they are on par, sullying historical records and achievements in the process.
I tuned that out. I know major leaguers would play games against negro league squads and go back and forth so obviously some could’ve been productive in the majors. I felt mlb has done enough considering the best negro league players are in the HOF. Not sure what they think they are doing with this. Also it always makes me curious why Moses Fleetwood Walker isn’t seen as the first black player.
But I agree, don’t mess up the record books. Satchel Paige probably would’ve had some records had he played in the MLB his whole career but he didn’t, and he is still recognized as an amazing pitcher.
I just looked on Baseball Reference, and at least it looks like they took the "Negro Leagues are Major Leagues" propaganda masthead off the home page and the individual player pages.
I'm not denigrating individual Negro League players nor do I know enough about them to comment intelligently.
But it really turned me off that like everything leftists and globohomo do, they rewrote history by smashing together Negro and MLB statistics together in a hamhanded fashion with no respect for statistical integrity just so that they could virtue signal for a season.
Yea. And the crazy thing is that the great negro league players got their due. Some later than others, but still they got recognition. That whole stars thing is beyond ridiculous