What makes an ATG?

[Beanflicker]

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb would have been second rate if they had to play against blacks and so would Dempsey and Tunney.

[El Kabong]

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb would have been second rate if they had to play against blacks and so would Dempsey and Tunney.

The reason I disagree is that Boxing has a clear cut guy that is THE MAN and baseball being a team sport is less about the individual so it wouldn't have been Satchel Paige vs Babe Ruth 3 outs an inning for 9 innings....both could excel and do fine. In boxing you have Jack Dempsey, his manager supposedly turned down a fight vs Harry Wills or Sam Langford well after their primes, because they wanted a tune up fight not a tooth and nail battle.

Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb would ALWAYS be Hall of Famers regardless of who they played against, just look at the numbers. Sure there was Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, James 'Cool Papa' Bell and they were greats themselves but the Negro Leagues were by no means deeper with talent than the MLB especially with pitchers. Comparing and contrasting these guys and debating on how they would do is all speculation but I know and am 100% certain that the big stars of that baseball era would have still been big stars regardless of Blacks or Hispanics or Asians being on their teams....big shout out to Worldwide HR record holder Sadaharu Oh who had 868 homeruns for the Yomiuri Giants albeit in a league that was certainly lower caliber than the MLB in his era 1959-1980.

But yeah black boxers back in the day there were a lot of them that could have been and should have been champions especially Willis and Langford