Let's say that you get to pick the best athletes out of a town of 5,000 people. Then I get to pick the best athletes out of a city of 5,000,000 people. Who is going to find more elite athletes?
It's stupid to pretend that there would be as many athletes when the talent pool was tiny as there are now when the talent pool was huge. Back then guys were getting "discovered" because they were sitting in a college class and just happened to be 6'8", or tried out basketball after failing in the minors as a pitcher, etc. Most talented White athletes were still going to baseball and football, and 80% of the Black talent wasn't given a chance at all, and there was NO international talent in the game. Not to mention the whole population was less than half as much as it is now.
More people, more talent at the top. That's how it is.
Try this shyt on for size - up through 1964, if you were Black and over 6'9" and you got drafted, there was nearly a 50% chance you were going to the Hall of Fame.
Almost HALF the Black dudes over 6'9" who were drafted before 1965 made the Hall of Fame.
And you think the athletic talent was greater back then.
u werent alive in the 60's when those athletes smoked cigarettes in dugouts, and looked like a bunch of dads
breh struggling with Father Time.
