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I was watching pbs baseball series about the negro leagues and specifically the 1939 negro league World Series and saw thoughts came to mind. While integration into the majors was definitely the right and best thing to do it spelled the end for the negro leagues. According to the program there were 40000 people in the stands for the ws game. Got me thinking there must have been some money being made. Apparently negro league players made much less than major league players but much more than most other African Americans. Did the minor leagues integrate at the same time? The majority of players obviously didn’t make it to the majors and negro leagues dissolved I guess those players just got regular jobs and baseball was no longer an option. Maybe the negro leagues could have integrated and become minor league teams or was it just too bad for the good but not great players. It seems to me baseball actually shrank.