Former Phillies slugger Ryan Howard makes pitch for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum expansion https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/332868/ #Baseball #BobKendrick #CAStateWire #DarrylStrawberry #GeneralNews #HoustonAstros #JackieRobinson #JoshGibson #KansasCity #KSStateWire #MikeShildt #Missouri #MLB #MLBBaseball #MOStateWire #PAStateWire #Philadelphia #PhiladelphiaPhillies #PhiladelphiaPhillies #Phillies #RaceAndEthnicity #RyanHoward #SanDiegoPadres #Sports #TerryPendleton #U.S.News #WillieMcGee

Buffalo Bills rookie Landon Jackson wows on and off field

The floor of Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the annual scouting combine was a hub of activity…
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See our latest post on Josh Gibson. Gibson was known as the “Home Run King” in the Negro Leagues. #JoshGibson #NegroLeagues https://historianspeaks.org/f/josh-gibson-negro-leagues-home-run-king

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#1947League slugging percentage race. There's Josh, there's Coop, and there's everybody else.

In case you were wondering: Ted Williams checks in at #12, Joe DiMaggio at #14.

More on #JoshGibson, #baseball's greatest hitter of all time:

https://www.wuot.org/2024-06-02/josh-gibsons-new-place-in-the-record-books

MLB To Incorporate Negro Leagues Statistics Into Its Official Records
#News #Sports #JoshGibson #MLB #NegroLeagues

https://deadline.com/2024/05/mlb-incorporates-negro-leagues-statistics-into-official-records-1235945412/

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One of my all-time favorite baseball players that too few people know about - #JoshGibson is now the overall career as well as single season MLB batting champ. And he was a slugger, not a slap hitter.

And one of the best things about adding his stats to the official MLB Stats list means that Ty Cobb, a great player but horribly racist and hateful human, is no longer the batting champ.

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[Podcast] How these newly included MLB stats recognize the legacies of Black players, by NPR's Consider This

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/29/1198912446/mlb-stats-negro-leagues-integration-recognition-gibson-robinson

> Author and historian Larry Lester is one of the people who has fought to change that for years.

> He's spent over 50 years compiling statistics from the Negro Leagues. Now, that effort is getting recognition from the #MLB, and Lester spoke to Ari Shapiro on the battle for inclusion.

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Major League Baseball formally adopted statistics from the Negro Leagues into its official history on Wednesday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2024/05/30/baseball/negro-leagues-numbers-mlb/ #baseball #negroleagues #mlb #joshgibson #jackierobinson #satchelpaige #baseball #race

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Yeah, so this happened. 😊

#MLB catches up with #1947League and, um, reality -- acknowledges that #JoshGibson is the all-time batting average and OPS leader.

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Baseball's all-time leaders lists have changed overnight with the integration of the Negro Leagues into Major League Baseball statistics. Josh Gibson is now officially one of the greatest players of all time, beating Ty Cobb for career batting average and Babe Ruth for slugging percentage and OPS. His great grandson, Sean Gibson, hopes that the MVP award will be renamed in his honor. The trophy was previously named after Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, who played a key role in keeping baseball segregated. “How ironic would it be for Josh Gibson to replace the man who denied more than 2,300 men the opportunity to play baseball in the major leagues,’’ Sean Gibson told USA Today.

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It’s a monumental day in the game of baseball. ⚾️

As of today, the Major League Baseball database will be updated to incorporate Negro Leagues statistics.

Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, who spent his entire career in the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946, will become the all-time record holder in several categories, overtaking the likes of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth.

#MLB #JoshGibson #GOAT

Hanging with Dolores Huerta, celebrating Jackie Robinson Day at the Albuquerque Isotopes game and meeting Pete Gibson, the grandson of Negro League legend Josh Gibson. All this past weekend.

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🧵 on #SatchelPaige

Yesterday I asked you who he was talking to when he said:

"I’m not gonna throw any smoke at your yoke; I’m gonna throw a pea at your knees."

Short answer: #JoshGibson. Long answer: read on.

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#1947League question:

According to legend, #JoshGibson was called out of the stands on July 25, 1930 and asked to take over the catching duties by owner and future Hall of Famer Cum Posey.

Name the team Gibson played for that night.

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#1947League trivia question.

Name a team #JoshGibson played for that wasn't the Homestead Grays.

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#1947League #TRIVIA QUESTION:

Name a team for which today's hero, #JoshGibson, played in real life.

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