Quote Originally Posted by Shane1 View Post
Really? Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks and Jackie Robinson weren't among those "best baseball players in the world?" Before the color barrier was broken I think it's common knowledge that some of those "best" were not even in the Majors. Pretty sure that's his point.
It's parsing a statement to the point of being ridiculous. Americans are THE BEST at baseball. The last time baseball was an Olympic sport who won gold? USA. They have the WBC but that's not a competition that's respected all that much. ALSO my point was the World Series winners of recent history have players from all nations playing for them much like the Premier League in soccer and the MLB is THE BEST baseball league in the world hands down....you don't see players from the MLB jumping ship to play in Japan for better pay and better teams, they play in Japan when they can no longer hack it in the MLB.