The more than 2,300 players who played in the seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948 will be integrated into MLB's database. The Special Baseball Records Committee of 1969 voted ...

Thorn said the 60-game MLB season, necessitated by the COVID pandemic in 2020, as well as those in 1877 and 1878, could serve as useful precedents when evaluating Negro Leagues seasons and statistics.

Negro Leagues statistics will become part of the official Major League historical record today, May 29. More than 2,300 players who played in the seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920 ...

Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that the statistics of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players will be incorporated into its record book. The addition, which comes a few years after MLB ...

The Negro Leagues were officially elevated to MLB status in 2020. Some 2,300 people played in the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948, including the famed Kansas City Monarchs.

NEW YORK (AP) — Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were ...

MLB has worked with Elias and other Negro League researchers to come up with "official" statistics. MLB.com's database has Gibson playing in 653 games. By contrast, Ruth played 2,504 and Cobb ...

MLB Josh Gibson will dominate MLB’s record book as Negro Leagues stats are added. Starting Wednesday, the Homestead Grays star will stand atop MLB’s career leader boards in batting average and ...

Sammy T. Hughes played in the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946. He was a star who was buried without pomp or a headstone.

The announcement that Major League Baseball is now integrating statistics from the Negro Leagues into its official database was widely celebrated in and out of baseball when the news broke Wednesday.

MLB incorporates Negro Leagues statistics into record books 04:37. In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of ...

The updated MLB database is set to go live at 10:30 a.m. ET Wednesday, and when it does, Thorn said, there will be “no asterisks, no footnotes” for stats from the Negro Leagues compared with ...