I think in a certain sense, we lost through history what it meant for a black Latino to break into the game. And that's partly because folks kind of looked at the story of baseball as two distinct eras, of segregated and integrated and forget about the folks who made the transition.
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That is less than half a percent of (the players). Even if the committee elects another 12 or 15, that would be only about 1.2 percent.
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