Negro League statistics from 1920-48 have been integrated into MLB's record book. Josh Gibson is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS. Babe Ruth has long ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

An unintended consequence of a change in MLB's uniform policy is that the Royals no longer wear Monarchs uniforms. There has ...

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 ...

Integrating Negro Leagues stats into the pre-existing MLB statistical record was a complicated phenomenon that didn't ... Many former MLB players will have their Negro League accomplishments added.

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 ...

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.

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 ...