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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 5088260, member: 289"] Buck Leonard once said that he estimated that the Negro Leagues were about the equivalent of Triple A. But consider that the white major leagues at the time also might have been the equivalent of Triple A and that, at the time, Triple A was independent and full of cities that eventually got major league teams. They weren't what Triple A is now. (I've thought for years that outstanding players who played in the "high minors" before the war should be considered for the Hall of Fame, as they would have been star major leaguers in our era.) Maybe MLB should just start the stats from 1947, when the leagues got integrated and the minor leagues became truly minor. [/QUOTE]