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JustinChad, I agree with you about there being alot of talent in the Negro Leagues, but the problem with comparing the Negro Leagues to the Majors is that there really isn't an effective way to do so.
In the Negro Leagues, the actual league seasons were very short with erratic schedules, so teams played against a large variety of teams of varying quality. Also combine that with the habitual jumping of teams by most star players and that also diminishes the quality. So using statistical evidence to determine the Negro League's quality of play is really difficult and probably impossible. So for many players in any given season we have maybe a 15-30 game sample of statistics garnered from totalling up box scores.
Add to that the fact that many NL'ers played 200+ games year round and it becomes like comparing apples and oranges. No one is looking at Barry's minor league numbers and spring training numbers, or the Babe's records on barnstorming tours and adding them to their totals. So it would be unfair to use every game Gibosn played against all competition to total up his homeruns.
Even if Josh Gibson hit 1000 homers, alot of those came against subpar opposition and whilst playing year round in Mexico, The Caribbean and the US.
A team of Negro League all-stars with a full pitching staff would probably have done quite well in the Majors, but even the great Negro League teams like the Crawfords and Greys were subject to losing players pretty regularly(notably Satchel and Josh who both spent significant portions of their playing time outside of the Negro Leagues), and can't really be adequately compared to Major League teams of the time.
Also the barnstorming tours and exhibition games against major league players do reveal something of the talent level, but not everything. All they tell us is that some really good Negro League players could most likely hang with some good Major League players, but due to the fact that mainly star quality and veteran NL'ers were the ones doing these tours no indication is given of how the mediocre and marginal NL'ers would have done.
The best NL'ers would have likely done well in MLB, and maybe quite a few more would have been able to hold jobs or be bench players, but that doesn't mean that the top to bottom quality of the Negro Leagues was in any way comparable to that of the Majors.