A forgotten legacy of MLB expansion in 1961-62 is that it mostly killed racial discrimination in promoting black prospects. In the 1950s, it was still common for black players to log an extra year or two battering minor league competition - teams still hesitant to integrate fast.
Definitely some white guys stuck in the same trap. The question, which I have not studied systematically, is whether it was disproportionate. But given that black players were very underrepresented in MLB the 1950s & some teams definitely thought this way, it's not a big leap.
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What it is, is, it's a false statement. I would urge you to avoid making false statements when you can. I know that we all write things, in good faith and with sources, that turn out to be unverifiable.
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Well, what I think we can observe is that (1) expansion broke a lot of guys out of that trap at the same time that (2) the proportion of black players started rising quickly - by almost a third 1960-63. https://sabr.org/bioproj/topic/baseball-demographics-1947-2016/ …
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One example I will give you; Vic Power probably spent an extra year in the minors because of his race and his confrontational behavior. But there were other factors. The Yankees had him AND Moose Skowron on the same minor league team. Skowron got the first ticket up.
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Yes. And yes, the Yankees did that to some white prospects, too, because their system was so loaded.
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