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[redacted] 4:17 PM (1 hour ago)
to me
In your piece on Babe Ruth, you say there were’nt a lot of great players in the early decades, in part because of the color line. What racist nonsense! So you have to be black to be great? There were many many stars from the very beginning. Come to grips with your prejudiced thinking.
Darren D’Addario <afflictor1@gmail.com> 5:23 PM (40 minutes ago)
to [redacted]
Your dishonest argument (that I stated or suggested that you had to be black to be great) shows how bankrupt your position is. Baseball didn’t have a critical mass of tremendous talent in the game’s early years for a variety of reasons (the lack of good salaries, its raffish nature, the paucity of a minor-league system as we know it), but the color line certainly was a huge factor in watering down the game. If you don’t acknowledge that basic fact, perhaps you need to come to grips with your prejudiced thinking.