Posted on 05/28/2024 8:29:55 PM PDT by Round Earther
It has been an article of faith for nearly a century, as if chiseled onto a tablet by Abner Doubleday himself: The leading hitter in major league history is, and always will be, Tyrus Raymond Cobb.
But history evolves. We know that Doubleday did not, in fact, invent baseball. And as of Wednesday, Josh Gibson will replace Cobb as the leading hitter in the official records of the game. At .372, Gibson’s career batting average eclipses Cobb’s by six points.
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Historical revisionism continues unabated...
Communism on an unstoppable march...
This won’t get a single new person to go to, or to watch a baseball game.
What’s next, proclaim Meadowlark Lemon as the greatest scorer in basketball history?
“But history evolves.”?
Truth is a constant. History “evolves” as the Marxist/Stalinist rewrite the history books. For the NYT history as it’s occurring is rewritten to further the ‘cause’.
I’m going to get some heat for this: Gibson was a victim of actual discrimination, not the junk we are seeing today. Cobb was amazing. Both crushed it. So who was actually better? We will never know.
Now it's down to college football. Will they also go woke?
Professional athletics, like almost every other institution in what used to be America, has been fully absorbed into the hive-mind of the Left. Thus the need to constantly virtue-signal. Give it time, Jackie Robinson will eventually be declared a god by MLB, and the stats of the Rainbow Flag softball league of the Tenderloin District of San Francisco will be added to the official records.
Gibson was the 2nd best player ever, but ruth is the 1st.
Jackie did more for Civil Rights than any other man. Great ballplayer and man.
Jackie was also a Republican.
Yes, awesome post.
People get real tochy about Gibson and Ruth, because Gibson was wrongly kept out of the MLB. But Ruth is the better all around player. Using today’s fences, he could have hit 1, 254 Home Runs!! And he was a Hall Of Fame Pitcher as well.
We can guess but we'll never know.
Cobb’s shoes gave him an edge.
How true. In some places the Negro League games were considered not important enough for any of the local press to even send a sports reporter. Games that made it into print in many cases were self reported by the teams, or from second, and third hand information.
Statistics from the Negro league were unreliable. How can you rewrite the record book with questionable numbers?
I frequently hear that some white players didn’t have to play against black players, a true statement. I’ve never heard that some black players didn’t have to play against white players, which is also a true statement. Cobb and Gibson may have both benefited from playing against diluted talent.
I really don’t care about which dead guy stole the most bases.
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