Josh Gibson has become MLB’s career and season batting leader as Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project.
Major League Baseball's record books look a lot different.The league has officially recognized statistics from the Negro Leagues and incorporated them into its own data, the organization announced Wednesday. MLB elevated Negro League stats as "major league" in 2020, a move they said was "a longtime oversight in the game's history." Since then, MLB has been working with the Elias Sports Bureau in order to figure out a way to incorporate them into MLB’s history.
440 by Hugh Duffy for the National League’s Boston team in 1894.Gibson also became the career leader in slugging percentage and OPS , moving ahead of Babe Ruth .Standards for season leaders is the same for Negro Leagues as the other leagues: 3.1 plate appearances or one inning for each game played by a player's team.Gibson’s .974 slugging percentage in 1937 is now the season record, and Barry Bonds’ .863 in 2001 dropped to fifth, also trailing Mules Suttles' .877 in 1926, Gibson’s .
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