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Originally Posted by Mark17
Your analogy is flawed because the Sistine Chapel's fame is 100% due to the skill employed by the best artisan of the day... not because it was painted. Integration is a watershed moment in baseball because somebody did it.
If Rickey chooses to make Campanella the guy to break the color line, Robinson would be a borderline HOFer. Roy won 3 MVP awards and was the better player, and that's just one example.
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I'm sure other artists could have done something amazing at the Sistine Chapel. Yes my analogy is not 100%.
What if Rickey choose someone who got fed up with being called the N word and took a bat to someone's head? How many years would that have set integration back.
Jackie did it. Quite well. Others woulda, coulda, shoulda. But we have to give kudos to the man who actually DID IT