Understood
I understood your implied point but wanted you to make it. No point in incurring the wrath of Red Sox fans. Simple fact of the matter is that the Red Sox integrated ONLY after the Celtics did with their early championship teams and the Bruins integrated the NHL with Willy O'Ree.
Far from convinced that re-writing history works. Like arguing about the impact on home run records if Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams had switched teams giving each the benefit of more games with a short field.
Regardless Mays would have spent minimal time with the any team since he went into the army, playing 150-160 games MLB between 1948-1953.
More a question of simple bad management - like the NY Rangers deciding to keep Vic Howe instead of Gordie Howe.
rumpleforeskiin said:Right, but my point, which you failed to understand, was that Pumpsie's delayed appearance was emblematic of the Sox' racism, which is directly linked to their failures over the last half of the last century.
The Sox had first dibs on Jackie Robinson, trying him out in April of 1945 and passing. The Sox had first dibs on Willie Mays through their working agreement with the Birmingham Black Barons. They passed on him as well.
I understood your implied point but wanted you to make it. No point in incurring the wrath of Red Sox fans. Simple fact of the matter is that the Red Sox integrated ONLY after the Celtics did with their early championship teams and the Bruins integrated the NHL with Willy O'Ree.
Far from convinced that re-writing history works. Like arguing about the impact on home run records if Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams had switched teams giving each the benefit of more games with a short field.
Regardless Mays would have spent minimal time with the any team since he went into the army, playing 150-160 games MLB between 1948-1953.
More a question of simple bad management - like the NY Rangers deciding to keep Vic Howe instead of Gordie Howe.
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