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.
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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THose things would be easy to document if they were true.
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Rule V draft is also part of that story alongside expansion (eg, Roberto Clemente getting liberated from the Dodgers system). It got harder in general to keep talented players down.
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