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Negro Leagues recognized as official major league, stats to be added to MLB records
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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.
MLB bestows major-league status on Negro Leagues
The stats for seven Negro Leagues which played from 1920-1948 will be added to the major league record books.
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Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that it will bestow major league status on seven Negro Leagues that played from 1920-1948: the Negro National League (I), which played from 1920-31; the Eastern Colored League (1923-28), the American Negro League (1929), the East-West League (1932), the Negro National League (II), which played from 1933-48; and the Negro American League (1937-48).
MLB is correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history by officially elevating the Negro Leagues to “Major League” status. pic.twitter.com/gPSaTbD5Ud MLB (@MLB) December 16, 2020
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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.
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