Baseball prides itself on statistics and it’s how the sport recognizes its all-time greats. Those stats are now changing, in a big way. MLB officially incorporated statistics from the Negro Leagues ...

Baseball prides itself on statistics and it’s how the sport recognizes its all-time greats. Those stats are now changing, in a big way. MLB officially incorporated statistics from the Negro Leagues ...

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 ...

Josh Gibson is the new MLB batting king. MLB on Tuesday announced it incorporated statistics from the Negro Leagues into its record books, meaning new players are now chart toppers. Gibson was the ...

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 ...