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NEW YORK -- Josh Gibson became Major League Baseballs career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobbs .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project.

It's been an article of faith for nearly a century, as if cut into a tablet by Abner Doubleday: The leading hitter in major league history is Tyrus

MLB announced in December 2020 that it would be "correcting a longtime oversight" by adding the Negro Leagues.

Gibson also became the career leader in slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177), moving ahead of Babe Ruth (.690 and 1.164).

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

MLB officially incorporates Negro League records.

Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average

Negro Leagues data is now available on the FanGraphs player pages and leaderboards.

Buck O'Neil and Minnie Miñoso head a bumper crop of honorees, but not every long-anticipated election came to pass.

After a year's postponement, the Golden Days and Early Baseball committees will meet for the first time in December.