[BobL]

DEI at work.

[Golden Eagle]

Never heard of him. Is he black?

[Jonty30]

I’m fine with amalgamating the Negro leagues with the professional league baseball. That seems reasonable to me.

[Repeal The 17th]

MLB gives the title to a guy who never played in MLB!

[MinorityRepublican]

List of Major League Baseball career recordsThe Stats by the Negro Leagues cannot be 100% historically accurate because the records were not always maintained.

I'm the wrong person to ask, but the quality of the play was considered to be AAA? That's a good question to ask. If so, stats by Josh Gibson would be consideree to be inflated, had he played in the MLB, he would have hit less home runs, obviously.

[Dr. Sivana]

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsojo99.shtml

He certainly had some power, which Cobb was never known for. (Cobb played in the dead ball era)

However, the Negro Leagues look like they have VERY short seasons, under 70 games a year, so Josh Gibson only played in 600 games over 14 years. That would be a four year career in the NL/AL.

I believe it is an open question as to whether the Negro League talent averaged as well as the NL/AL talent. The best players who played in the NL/AL after there primes competed just fine. I cannot give the all-time hitting leader to someone who only played the equivalent of four seasons.

[moovova]

Doesn’t the three-fifths compromise affect the total number of runs?

[PBRCat]

This is a joke.

The records in the Negro Leagues are incomplete. This was the principal reason why MLB never included the Negro Leagues in the same categories as the recognized “major leagues.”

If Cobb and Ruth had barnstorming games included with their MLB statistics, the numbers would be off the charts.

[SuperLuminal]

Historical revisionism continues unabated...
Communism on an unstoppable march...

[dfwgator]

What’s next, proclaim Meadowlark Lemon as the greatest scorer in basketball history?

[KamperKen]

“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’.

[piytar]

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.

[PROCON]

Along with the NBA and NFL years earlier, I also quit watching MLB Baseball and my Seattle Mariners when they had 'gay family night' at the ballpark, who needs this crap, certainly not me.

Now it's down to college football. Will they also go woke?

[rexthecat]

I really don’t care about which dead guy stole the most bases.

[DouglasKC]

I must be old or very much out of touch with baseball because I because I have no idea who this is.

[Salvavida]

Josh Gibson was a beast. But the statistical records from the Negro Leagues were not up to the same standards of that of MLB, and they were incongruent systems as far as scheduling, and level of play.

This is ridiculous.

[Bullish]

Why don't they just knock down all the baseball statues while they're at it? None of them are safe now that revisionists are at it anyway. Negro baseball leagues didn't have as high of standards as MLB in both Officiating and stat keeping. But now they want to take it as a leap of faith that a negro must have been better than a white player even in the face of dubious, suspect stat keeping and play calling by under qualified umps and stat keepers.

[spincaster]

I have his Negro league rookie baseball card ,is it worth anything?

[Fury]

As long as the records can be verified in some way, seems fine.

[Beowulf]

Major League Baseball (MLB) will not be a true DEI warrior until it also includes the records of all professional baseball leagues, past and present:

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB)
Korean Baseball Organization (KBO)
Dominican Professional Baseball League (LIDOM)
Mexican Baseball League (LMB)
Venezuelan Professional Baseball League (LVBP)
Australian Baseball League (ABL)
Cuban National Series Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL)
European Association of Professional Baseball (EAPB)
The Italian Baseball League (Serie A)

Until then MLB will continue to a racist organization. < /sarcasm>