In 1950 the U.S. Population was at 150 million. That was the pool we were swimming in. Now... it is over 335 million and add the best players from around the rest of the world! What you are seeing now is beyond what was fielded in 1950 by about 20 times. The best of the best and add to that decades of physical and mental knowledge culminating in what you see now. The level of baseball you see now isn't what hour father, grandfather or great grandfather ever saw!
