Best ATHLETES don’t necessarily dominate the game of baseball. Ty Cobb, Pete Rose, Lenny Dykstra et al peel them out of one era and slap them into another and they bring it. Lou Gehrig is timeless. No way Christy Mathewson, Whitey Ford or Walter Johnson don’t supersede Justin Verlander nowadays. And Greg Maddux never threatened the number 90 on a radar gun and dominated the modern era. It’s tragic that Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell and others didn’t get to compete on the biggest stage (or in their prime in Satchel’s case), but that doesn’t erase the great players not excluded by racism. Athletes have ALWAYS been around. Wilt Chamberlain and Oscar Robertson with today’s training and nutrition would have set unapproachable records. Nothing is absolute.