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Career and season MLB records that changed following the addition of Negro Leagues statistics
Associated Press via Yahoo Sports· 2 days ago...Charleston, .363 Rogers Hornsby, .359 (asterisk)Jud Wilson, .350 (asterisk)Turkey Stearnes, .348...
Rewriting the record books: MLB officially incorporates Negro Leagues statistics
Homenewshere.com· 1 day agoMove aside, Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, because there's a new name atop the MLB record books after the...
Minnesota native near history with MLB-Negro Leagues statistical merging
KMSP· 1 day agoMajor League baseball has announced it will merge Negro League statistics into its record books,...
Today in History: May 30, Joan of Arc burned at the stake - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 22 hours agoHarding, Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and Robert Todd Lincoln. In 1935, Babe Ruth played in his last major league baseball game for the Boston Braves ...
Josh Gibson becomes MLB career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
Associated Press· 2 days agoGibson’s .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season standard, followed by Charlie...
Hank Aaron Negro Leagues stats: Will Hall of Famer pass Barry Bonds as MLB's home run king after...
Sporting News· 2 days agoJosh Gibson leapt up the all-time charts, surpassing Barry Bonds, Babe Ruth, and countless other...
Josh Gibson, excluded by MLB, takes his place in baseball history
Washington Post· 2 days agoThe decision allowed Gibson’s lifetime batting average of .372 to eclipse Ty Cobb’s .367 and surge...
Breaking barriers: MLB elevates Negro Leagues to major status
Revolt via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoThis included Josh Gibson, revered as one of the greatest catchers of all time, who was previously...
Talking baseball and what it means to have Negro Leagues stats integrated into MLB
Kansas City Star via Yahoo Sports· 22 hours agoLeague Baseball — which has resulted in new leaders atop several categories — happened decades later...
MLB incorporates historical records of black players
BBC via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoMore than 2,300 black players played in segregated leagues during that period. Now MLB has finished the task of updating its records to feature those...