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MLB Now Recognizes Negro League As A Major League
This move comes 70 years after the Negro Leagues dissolved.
The MLB has announced it will finally recognize former Negro League players as part of the major leagues. Over 70 years after the Negro League ended, the organization will now include the records and statistics of all 3,400 players as part of MLB history.
On Wednesday, December 16, the MLB said this change is “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history,” as all seven leagues were excluded in 1969 when the Special Committee on Baseball Records selected six official major leagues dating back to 1876. Just one year after Jackie Robinson became the first Black player for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, the Negro Leagues dissolved and were not considered in any of the MLB’s stats between 1920-1948.
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In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York s Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)
NEW YORK Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.
Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major league record, too.
The statistics and records of greats like Gibson, Paige and roughly 3,400 other players are set to join Major League Baseball s books after MLB announced Wednesday it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league.
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NEW YORK Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.
Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major league record, too.