The Negro Leagues - Baseball Reference Announcement

[MFS62]

Baseball Reference has announced that the Negro Leagues will be considered Major Leagues and their statistics have been included in their site.

Here is the link to the announcement and links to the statistics.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/negro-leagues-are-major-leagues.shtmlhttps://www.baseball-reference.com/negro-leagues-are-major-leagues.shtml



Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I noticed that yesterday. Looked at Willie Mays' page and his debut is changed to 1948 and he has ten additional career base hits.

[kcmets]

Baseball Reference has announced that the Negro Leagues will be considered Major Leagues

Well, it wasn't Baseball Reference who decided (considered) it. They just updated

the stats in accordance with https://www.npr.org/2020/12/17/947440076/after-100-years-mlb-recognizes-negro-leagues-as-major-leaguethis, of course.

[Edgy MD]

For a long time, the only two pitchers in the Hall of Fame with losing records in the Hall of Fame were Leroy Paige and Rollie Fingers.



Bruce Sutter (and maybe somebody else?) has since joined them, but Satchell is now off the hook.

[Frayed Knot]

The leagues included are:

NEGRO AMERICAN LG (1937-1948)

NEGRO NATIONAL LG II (1933-1948)

EAST-WEST LG (1932)

NEGRO SOUTHERN LG (1932)

NEGRO NATIONAL LG (1920-1931)

AMERICAN NEGRO LG (1929)

EASTERN COLORED LG (1923-1928)







BB-REF also redesigned their front page to make room for the announcement which has the

added bonus of cleaning things up a bit from the jumbled mess it's looked like most recently.

[Edgy MD]

Have the other Negro League records been added (or will they be added) as minor league data?

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Have the other Negro League records been added (or will they be added) as minor league data?

Not clear at this time.

Later

[Edgy MD]

This guy talking now doesn't have his late fifties Negro League data added yet.



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