MLB can be out of touch, but the league making good on its commitment to integrate Negro League Baseball stats deserves praise and appreciation.
always will be separate. It was a product of Black athletes and executives creating a league apart largely because they were barred from MLB. NLB was the only route to professional baseball in America.That much is etched on the walls of our nation’s inglorious history. It is as separate in 2024 as it was in 1964 or 1904. To paraphrase, segregation forever.
“That truly was a historic moment. From that time on, a dream team of Negro League historians, researchers and educators started the daunting task of unearthing this data to put it in a quantifiable fashion. Which got us to this point when it was officially released today.” This can only be enlightening for fans previously unaware of the quality of play in NLB – and perhaps wholly unfamiliar with the those who longed to enter MLB but were denied based on skin color.. True fans know the name, but others will be introduced. Inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, his .372 batting average displaces Hall of Famer Ty Cobb atop the career batting list. Gibson is among five NLB players now among the top 10 career batting leaders.
“And I do think that commissioner Manfred seized the moment, understanding that this is one way in which baseball could support this movement and in its own way and to recognize the Negro Leagues and the fashion in which it did.”
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