Major League Baseball will integrate Negro League statistics in the game's official records.
Legendary figures who endured the racist Jim Crow Era of the Deep South while playing on yester-year's Chitlin' Circuit and barnstormed with white teams in the 1940s will finally have their statistical contributions included in the annals of Major League Baseball.
Steve Musgrave's 'Satchel Paige': The Hall of Famer is shown as a monumental figure. Reds Hall of Fame and Museum chief curator Chris Eckes says this is the single biggest piece of art in the 'Shades of Greatness' exhibit. Img 2133 / The Enquirer/Dave Clark via Imagn Many will see the Negro League player named Tetelo Vargas , but he had only 136 at-bats on the season. The MLB qualification is 3.1 at-bats per scheduled game; thus, Josh Gibson's 302 plate appearances qualified.
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