Sean Gibson, the executive director of the Josh Gibson Foundation, stands next to a
poster of his great-great-grandfather, baseball player Josh Gibson, who became Major
League Baseball’s career batting champion when records from the Negro Leagues were
incorporated this week.
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Negro Leagues stats added to MLB records
Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project.
