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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
Why? Yes there is the whole overlay of baseball being white only, but at the same time with so far fewer teams, and no other major sports to siphon off great athletes, there was arguably more concentrated talent then, no?
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No. 1920, there were 16 teams of 23-25 guys in a country with a population just over 100 million and no players from outside the US and no non-white players. In 2025, the population is 342 million. To have the same proportion of players, you'd need to have 46-48 teams instead of 30. And that's not even accounting for non-white and Non-American players now competing for spots.