Take Note, Ty Cobb Fans

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Originally Posted by Hankphenom

And at some point, 2100, perhaps, everything before then might be taken with a grain of salt because women and transgender persons weren't taken seriously as potential major league players--who knows? Why can't we just accept the true history, including the numbers, made by these various groups within their own glorious incarnations without trying to shoehorn them in with each other in disregard of the fact they never got to compete against each other in an environment that would allow for truly rigorous comparisons. That doesn't make a lot of sense, statistical or otherwise, to me, as well as unnecessary.

We should never accept the past segregation, but we should leave it be, as that is what truly took place. The best way to learn from the mistakes of the past is to leave the past as it was, (especially) warts and all.

Imagine if we could go back and ask any Negro Leaguer if they were Major Leaguers (of course, only from 1920-48, because some people 100 years later came up with that timeframe). They'd laugh in our faces and tell us they were Negro Leaguers.