MLB: On second thought, the Negro Leagues were also major leagues
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Ed MorrisseyPosted at 7:01 pm on December 16, 2020
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A long-overdue correction to a 51-year-old bad decision. In attempting to unify and regulate the baseball record book in 1969, Major League Baseball identified and consolidated records from over a half-dozen professional circuits. The effort resulted in perhaps the most robust and studied set of statistics in professional sports — but left out black players from the era when MLB clubs refused to allow them to play.
Soon, those players will finally get their historical due, at least in part: