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Originally Posted by Orcin
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Edit: I am also thinking about using fictional players to populate these minor league teams. If I have the color barrier enabled, will that also prevent Hispanic and Asian players from being created for these leagues?
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Maybe it's been too long since this post
but..
Far as I can tell, the color barrier does not stop Latino & black players from playing in minor leagues. As apparently those leagues include the Latin leagues, the Negro League and the apparent fact that colored players were allowed into other minor league teams. (?)
On OOTP18, I tried out the color barrier enabled for realism on a 1910s Historical & it (happily) didn't keep several IRL Latinos & at least one black infielder, Dick Lundy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Lundy_(baseball) from coming in, who I used in a needed shortstop slot on my ML team & he turned out solid at that position. The game did not keep me from promoting him. Maybe the reason being that I'm using reserve: no minors? Same thing with Cuban Baseball Hall of Famer Manuel Cueto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Cueto Maybe the color barrier only keeps players out of the majors on AI at the beginning of seasons, then allows the user to place freely during the season?
Edit: Cueto played 3 seasons for the ML Cincinnati Reds. Looking further we see that more Latinos played major league ball before Jackie Robinson & the Wake-Up Call. Then there's mulatto. One wonders what the pre-1947 Brooklyn Dodgers would have been without mulattos. It's an odd subject considering how Caribbean peoples have African heritage. I guess it came down to how deep the pigment was: how well you could fake looking white. Note: I'm obviously not highly educated on baseball history & the subject of the civil rights movement pre-1960s. Hence, one of the reasons why I play OOTP Historical: maybe learn a few things. Another funny thing is how my colored recruits play on the same team as Ty Cobb with no morale adjustment necessary. Nice.. but maybe not so realistic at that. Ultimately we need a racism barrier: Players have to pass a written test... Cobb fails
Speaking of blacks, isn't there a version with Negro League? OOTP19?