NEW YORK -- 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 incorporated ...

Long have fans and players been rallying for Major League Baseball to incorporate the Negro Leagues' statistics into MLB's record books. Those rallying for the incorporation believe some of these ...

Baseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last game. But that’s exactly what happened last week when Major League Baseball integrated Negro League ...

Major League Baseball's record books will look a lot different later this week. The league is reportedly set to officially recognize statistics from the Negro Leagues and incorporate them into its own ...

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 1969, a special committee on baseball records met to determine which leagues in baseball history, other than the American and National Leagues as we know them today, ought to qualify as "major ...

The numbers aren’t complete. Too much barnstorming and too many impromptu ball games for every home run and earned run to have been documented by a box score. You might say that at long last the ...

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 ...

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 ...