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Posted By: Stufflestreet, Chris

So what if they are? If the best players available for the job happen to have been born outside the USA, what's the problem?

For years I have had to hear that Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, et. al. weren't as good as the legend says because they never had to face down Satchell Paige or have to field down one of Oscar Charleston's flies. Then after the league was integrated, it still wasn't fair because Koufax and Gibson didn't have to deal with Sadharu Oh.

Now the league is stocked with the best players it can find from across the globe and it's a problem? It seems to me that the most talented player makes the team; race, background, religion and even sexual preference has nothing to do with it. America is still a melting pot, and baseball is representative of that.