The East Coast versus the West Coast. If you were to believe the East Coast so-called baseball newspaper writers you would and could believe anything including the sale of the Brooklyn Bridge. Whats on my mind? The long-standing corporate greed and corruption of Major League Baseball. First it was the National League attempting to block the American League from being part of MLB, corporate greed pure and simple. Then it was the slinky garbage bag with or without his sheet and pointed hat blocking the racial integration of baseball, then it was the unbeliveavable United State Supreme Court ruling declaring MLB a sport and not a business thereby exempting baseball from the Sherman-Anti-Trust provisions of law, and in between that that same pin-headed baseball commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis bans members of the Chicago White Sox from baseball forever because, and get this, they were trying to feed themselves and their families too. The White Sox owner refused to give them a wage increase inspite of 3 or 4 financially-successful seasons, Imagine that; the so-called Black Sox scandal was all about ball players trying to survive, pre-the Great Depression. And where were those outstanding scribes for the Eastern newspapers? Yes, you guessed it; at the nearest watering hole. Among the countless acts of massive corporate greed was the continuous attempt to keep the game lilly white, and so it was that the so-called baseball stars of yesteryear never competed against their equals in the Negro and Mexican Leagues until they (the owners) could see a real financial profit in it. Imagine MLB with REAL competition with and against players of color and language, imagine that. The statistical wonders out there who can quote you any number of numbers can tell you the untold damage to America as a result of, at that time, a hateful national disgrace. Many of the games greatest players came from the West Coast; the old Pacific Coast League to be exact. But when the old PCL demanded major league status the 16 corporate owners at that time and commissioner A.B. Happy Chandler said NO. That would be 1948/49/50. The 16 owners and the commisioner would say YES at the end of the 57 season and then, over time grab 6 of the 8 geographical locations for themselves; Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, 2 in the LA area and San Diego. Thats right, 6 of the old PCLs 8 franchises just grabbed and taken away and replaced with what you have now. That, my fine-feathered baseball purists was What it was.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:04:22 +0000
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