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.

May 29 (Reuters) - Major League Baseball has officially incorporated statistics of former Negro Leagues players from 1920-1948 into its historical records on Wednesday in a move that saw all-time ...

*Major League Baseball (MLB) has integrated statistics from former Negro Leagues players into its historical records on its website. The move has resulted in new record holders. MLB icons Babe Ruth ...

Josh Gibson has long been considered one of the best baseball players to ever hold a bat, but you might not know his name. Gibson, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, never had ...

Major League Baseball has a new all-time batting leader. Josh Gibson played in the Negro Leagues before baseball was integrated. Now, statistics from those players have been added to the books. It's ...

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 than ...

Jansen, 38, has 476 career saves and could become only the third reliever in baseball history to save 500 games, accomplished ...

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 ...

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt .45s threw a nine-inning no-hitter—and lost. Errors allowed Pete Rose to reach base and eventually score the game’s only run in the 9th inning.

Major League Baseball will incorporate the statistics of former Negro Leagues players into its historical records, meaning the leaders of some statistical categories will change, USA Today reported ...