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Originally Posted by spider25
I know the basepath has always been at firstbase but i was referring to if you have a rule at one base then why not all bases. l do not think you are wrong but as a younsgter playing baseball I was taught to play different then what I see in todays game . Now they made a lot of stadium outfields with shorter distances to make it easier for home runs ////. there are a lot of very good players today but also a lot that would not have been on a major league team 30 yrs ago
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At the end or WWII MLB had 16 teams drawn from the white population of the US - about 100,000,000
Now there are 30 teams ( 1.9x as many) drawn from all the US, Latin America, Japan, Taiwan, and the up and coming Australia. Population about 550,000,000.
The talent pool is much larger now (5.5x) so the percent playing MLB is much smaller now
I postulate that many of the players "then" could not make a team now.