![]() More than two years after its announcement, MLB is still in the initial phase of the project: data acquisition. MLB’s plan to integrate Negro League numbers and statistical legacies with its own remains years from completion. “Now here we are in 2023,” he told The Athletic earlier this spring. ![]() Sean Gibson figured he’d hear an update on MLB’s progress in 2021. ![]() The desegregation of baseball’s record books would mean his great-grandfather, Josh Gibson, a legendary Negro Leaguer, a Baseball Hall of Famer, a prolific power hitter and a Black man who died at 35 three months before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier, would soon be rightfully listed alongside all-time MLB greats in a handful of single-season and career hitting categories.īut how soon the statistics would be incorporated was not made clear. Gibson read MLB’s press release that morning in stunned silence. ![]()
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