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Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief

This just seems like they're revising history for the sake of looking good in certain people's eyes. I doubt they're doing it for the right reasons, but whatever. It probably should have been done a long time ago, though.

All that said, I wonder how the players of the old Negro League would honestly feel about this. If I was in their positions, I wouldn't want the stats merged because I wouldn't want people to forget the true past of what I had to deal with, but hey, I'm just a 39 year old white guy. I definitely get a kick out of the rage I'm seeing on social media, just as bad as the Butker situation but from the other end of the spectrum. Just don't get all the outrage over sports, it's supposed to be fun. If you're not enjoying it for reasons like this, I don't see the point of being a fan.

Chief,

The initiative was launched in summer 2020. Draw your own conclusions on why it was decided.

At this point, they need to add the National Association and the Japanese Leagues. They opened the dam.

The Union League should never have been included. But again, the 1969 committee was creating a baseball encyclopedia and their main criteria was available data. People don't realize how important the 1969 MacMillan encyclopedia was. It changed the game and directly assisted in hall of fame inductions for several players. Now all that data is available in one Google search!