Baseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last game. But that’s exactly what happened last week when Major League Baseball integrated Negro ...
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.
Major League Baseball finally integrated Negro Leagues statistics into its historical records on Wednesday, a change that has long been pushed in the baseball world. And just like that, Josh Gibso ...
Baseball history has now changed forever, as Major League Baseball has officially incorporated Negro Leagues statistics into its record book. An estimated 2,300 players who played in the Negro ...
Hundreds of Black athletes who were shut out of Major League Baseball a century ago are now officially a part of it. The MLB announced on Wednesday that it has incorporated the statistics of more ...
Baseball history has now changed forever, as Major League Baseball has officially incorporated Negro Leagues statistics into its record book. An estimated 2,300 players who played in the Negro ...
On Wednesday Negro League statistics were integrated into Major League Baseball’s historical record. This propelled Josh Gibson to the top of three statistical categories, including his becoming ...
Who’s the greatest baseball player of all time? Up until this week, that question was up for debate in America’s national pastime’s divided record books between two leagues: Major League ...
CINCINNATI — What once was a blip in Cincinnati baseball history is now more significant. Major League Baseball announced Wednesday on social media that over 2,300 Negro League players ...
Major League Baseball has officially incorporated Negro Leagues statistics into the Major League record, the league announced Wednesday. MLB elevated the Negro Leagues to "Major League" status in ...
NEW YORK — 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 ...
DETROIT — Joyce Stearnes Thompson spent Wednesday morning walking around a ballpark where her father once played. The perfectly manicured diamond at the restored Hamtramck Stadium is now named ...