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So there are arguments to been made against both those candidates, though the mere presence of an argument-against in baseball shouldn’t bring the thought to an end (and it shouldn’t in non-baseball endeavors either — you can’t just reject every chance to improve that might not work out — a classic management blunder in any field).

While either of those choices might have arguments against them, there were other first basement in the Negro Leagues who could hit. Bob “The Rope” Boyd was good enough to make that League’s West all-star te, though while he hit up a storm, he wasn’t a wallbanger. He was good enough though to go on to a major league career. The best fit for the Tigers was Lennie Pearson, the East’s all-star first baseman, a heavy hitter, and at 31 years old, in the prime for power. Pearson wasn’t a sl-dunk, either — when he made to the minors two years later, her was good enough to play, but not exceptional, though that doesn’t speak to his skills for ‘49. That year he led the Cuban league in doubles and slugged 11 homers in a little under half a season’s worth of at bats (280), batted .332 for the Negro Leagues’ chpion Baltimore Elite Giants. That doesn’t guarantee he’d have been a star for the Tigers, but it makes it inexcusable that they didn’t give him a tryout — by no measure could anyone have considered they could get less production out of 1st base with Pearson than the Tigers ultimately got with Cpbell, Vico and the utility infielder they acquired in May and used largely at first .best guitar string
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The reason the Tigers didn’t give Easter an offer, or Leonard or Pearson a tryout was not about potential talent - it was a complete blindness to the possibility that these players could have have made a positive difference. And that regardless of how big that elephant on the table was. It didn’t matter that the A.L. was already integrated — the Tigers’ front office couldn’t even discuss the possibility of recruiting talent from the Negro Leagues or Cuba…and acquiring talent to become better is not the core need and the core function of the front office.

In baseball, whatever doesn’t make you stronger kills you. The lack of power combined with a thinness in pitching after the starters “condemned” the 1949 Tigers to 4th place with a perfectly-fine 8 ge improvement over the previous year’s effort.