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Originally Posted by BobC
Because of the way they figured which stats would or wouldn't count for the Negro League players, I don't believe they have a single year where they count anywhere near the number of games being played by the AL and NL teams. So no Negro League players would have ever topped the majors in all three Triple Crown categories, they din't have enough HRs or RBIs.
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Yeah we'll never really be able to do apples to apples on the greats such as Charleston, Gibson, Paige etc.
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