re: #343 Belafon

What a great way to keep minorities out of baseball: Make it so that the only people who can afford to be in the minors are those whose family can support them.

Yep: the same-old, same-old about “The National Pastime” - the old-time (and we-thought-long-superseded) notion that baseball players ought to be playing for “the love of the game”; and dragging sordid materialism (like the principle that players ought to be making a living wage - however minimal) into the sport is an un-American ruination of the Athletic Ideal.

Charles Comiskey must be chuckling at this, wherever he is….