The move comes more than three years after Major League Baseball announced it would be elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status.

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 ...

MLB said it was retroactively elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status in 2020. Those statistics could soon be entered into the record book.

Major League Baseball integrated Negro League historical statistics into the record book, and Josh Gibson is the new batting average leader.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After Major League Baseball officially recognized Negro League stats Wednesday, there may just be a new greatest of all time in baseball.

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

The move will open the door for 2,300 Negro Leagues players to have their accomplishments entered into the official database.

MLB announced in December 2020 that it would be “correcting a longtime oversight” and would add the Negro Leagues.

MLB confirmed Tuesday that Negro Leagues statistics will officially become a part of MLB's historical record Wednesday.