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The Negro Leagues are now major league in eyes of MLB, its stats a part of official record
Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Leroy Satchel Paige pratices at New York s Yankee Stadium August 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the NewYork Cuban Stars. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)Matty Zimmerman / Associated Press 1942
For decades, baseball historians and fans have accepted it as gospel that Willie Mays collected 3,283 hits in his career, Bob Feller threw the only opening day no-hitter in baseball history and the top three batting averages of all-time belonged to Ty Cobb (.366), Rogers Hornsby (.359) and Shoeless Joe Jackson (.359). To suggest otherwise was to provoke a bar fight, or at the very least a peaceful consulting of Google.