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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 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