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Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B
The chances of illiteracy would unfortunately have been greater with African Americans just due to so much less afforded to them 100+ years ago. Just an uncomfortable truth.
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Perhaps, but there also would have been a relatively larger pool of poor whites who grew up in equally hard-scrabble circumstances as many of the black players, i.e. on tenant farms, in mining communities, etc., places where kids never went to school or left at very young ages to go to work. And given that the country was 90% white at the time, I would surmise that the number of white illiterate ballplayers would have far exceeded the number of black illiterate ballplayers.