No Ron, I am not I Yankee fan. I haven't sunk that low. I was a fan of Connie Mack's A's until they left for Kansas City. Then, I switched my allegience to the Braves when they relocated to Wisconsin.
I have been following the hometown Phillies these last thity years or so, and I more than understand frustration. I am not suggesting that the records of the Negro League were as meticulously kept as MLB's. Frankly, it doesn't matter. White baseball and Black baseball were both diluted by segregation. By calling the records of White baseball "official", MLB insults all those great Black players, their teams and their leagues. Of course, we can't right any wrongs at this time but we can recognize the disparity by saying that the only official records should be post 1947 (or, as you correctly pointed out, even later when all the teams were integrated). It is not coincidental that the Dodgers, who had been a sorry lot throughout their history, dominated the National League for years because they signed great Black players like Robinson, Newcomb and Campanella. Their main competition was the Giants who grabbed Hank Thompson, Monte Irvin and Willie Mays. It took the rest of the league years to catch up.
Mo Vaughn? MO VAUGHN? What the hell were they thinking?