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 ...

Josh Gibson, who spent his entire career playing in the Negro Leagues as a member of both the Pittsburgh Crawfords and Homestead Grays, will join the league's other former players in having their ...

In 2020, Major League Baseball announced that it would recognize the statistics from seven different Negro Leagues between 1920 and 1948 as Major League history. Until now, those leagues' statistics ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Inside Pittsburgh Classical Academy at Greenway Middle School, the legacy of one of baseball's greats lives on. The STEAM Program, which stands for science, technology, engineering ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of baseball legend Josh Gibson, about how statistics from the Negro Leagues have... Josh Gibson's new place in the record books SCOTT ...