To anyone questioning the legitimacy of making Negro Leagues statistics part of Major League Baseball’s official record, I pose this question: How legitimate were MLB’s statistics prior to 1947, when ...

In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

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 incorporated the statistics of former Negro Leagues players into its historical records on its website, meaning legendary leaders in some categories like Babe Ruth and Ty ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...

On Wednesday, Major League Baseball added the statistics of 29 seasons from seven Negro Leagues to its official database, broadening the depth of the statistical pool and even jockeying the list of ...

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 ...

In this 1942 photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Satchel Paige warms up at Yankee Stadium before a game against the New York Cuban Stars. (Matty Zimmerman/AP) Perspective by Kevin B. Blackistone A ...

"I know, we're nerds. And some people are like, 'Shut up, nerd, .300 is good!' I get that; I'm not debating that. But there are other ways that we can analyze players − and make them better and try to ...