Negro Leagues legend Josh Gibson is now MLB’s single-season record holder in batting average after hitting .466 in 1943
Satchel Paige of the Kansas City Monarchs talks with Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays before a game in Kansas City in 1941. Photo: Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics via Getty ImagesThe inclusion of seven professional Negro Leagues that operated between 1920 and 1948 into MLB records comes as replica jerseys and caps from the era have become popular with a new generation of fans.
For more than half a century, records from the Negro Leagues had been kept separate from the MLB and were simply ignored even before then."All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game's best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice," Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement.
"We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record."
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