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 Tuesday ...

On May 29, Josh Gibson became Major League ... it shouldn’t pretend that Major League Baseball has been one big, happy family ...

Josh Gibson had proven to Negro League followers that he was one of the game's greats. Voted into the Hall of Fame in 1972 by the Committee on Negro Baseball Leagues, the right-handed hitting ...

Every year, Major League Baseball ... the Negro League are often overlooked, dismissed, or flat-out forgotten. Most people have heard of Robinson. But how many know of Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson ...

The late baseball legend Oscar Charleston ... like this in his lifetime,” said Sean Gibson, great-grandson of Negro League Hall of Famer Josh Gibson. “I’m very excited for him.

On this date in 1947, baseball lost a legend. Josh Gibson, the most prodigious power hitter in Negro Leagues history ... broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. While we know Gibson ...

Kreindler's work is part of the Museum's centennial celebration and the launch of a Major League Baseball ... I think, like a lot of baseball fans, I knew very little about the Negro Leagues. I knew a ...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame features ... Paige still befuddled many a big league hitter. More > Josh Gibson (1972) Gibson’s exclusion from the Major Leagues evokes as many “what ifs” as any ...

For fans to have a fulsome view of baseball, it was vital to incorporate Negro League baseball into the ... arguably the greatest player of all-time, Josh Gibson, became the all-time leader ...

Several new Major League records are now newly held by Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, who is being joined on all-time Major League leaderboards by other Negro Leagues stars, Major League Baseball ...

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 ...

Philadelphia has a significant connection to the historical relevance and importance of Negro league baseball ... often is viewed as the second-best catcher in Negro baseball history behind Josh ...