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Originally Posted by joefromchicago
In any event, Negro League stats are, at best, guesstimates. The developers could have downgraded or upgraded NeL players and would have been justified in either case. I think the decision to treat the NeL as a minor league is historically accurate - the fact that, after the color barrier was broken, only a relative handful of black players made it into the majors was, in part, due to the fact that only a relative handful had the talent to make it to the majors.
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i respectfully disagree. Recently there has been chatter about making the Negro Leagues officially a Major League - the same ranking as Players League, American Association and the Federal League. So if the "people in the know" (whomever they be) are starting to think the caliber of play was major league quality, maybe opinions are changing.
And as far as only a handful of players making it from the Negro Leagues to the majors -
http://www.cnlbr.org/Portals/0/RL/Ne...%20Leagues.pdf
47 players from the Negro Leagues from 1947-1954 made it to the majors. The link above (i hope it works) has a full list of all the players that played both in the Negro Leagues and the Majors.
i do agree the stats are sparse, at best, at times. But it's all we have and i think the history of barnstorming (even if Landis banned it officially) proves they were at least equals. Player interviews and talks (esp. Dizzy Dean i recall on the Saturday Game Of the Week, Johnny Mize's comments about Martin Dihigo and Ted Williams speech) leads me to think they should be entered into the game as Major Leaguers, not minors. But that's just my opinion, and obviously Markus and the makers of the game feel differently. So, i edit every Negro League player in the games i play - and it works for my game. i just wish (selfishly possibly) they were recognized for as good as they were. Maybe this talk of recognizing the Negro Leagues will help.
https://www.thedad.com/mlb-negro-leagues/
thanks for tolerating my rant! and Joe, can't disagree with your assessment of the numbers. Just i read them differently. Have a good one and thanks for the great work you do on the schedules pages.
