Gibson, who died in 1947 at age 35, will overtake Ty Cobb as MLB's career leader in batting average (.372 versus .367), Hugh Duffy in single-season batting average (.446 versus .440), and Babe Ruth in ...

Baseball is a sport that is always in conversation with its history, and that conversation is mostly rooted in statistics. Fifty-six straight games, 4,256 hits, 73 home runs in a single season. Those ...

The all-time statistical leaders in baseball underwent a dramatic shake-up on Wednesday after MLB’s monumental d e cisio n to include Negro League players in its historical record. You may know the ...

It wasn’t just about Josh Gibson. Although the Negro Leagues star and his family received a ton of attention following Major League Baseball’s decision to enter Negro Leagues stats into the ...

Pittsburgh baseball legend Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367.On Tuesday, the Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of baseball legend Josh Gibson, about how statistics from the Negro Leagues have been integrated with Major League Baseball. Baseball is ...