MLB has new career, season batting leader after Negro Leagues statistics incorporated
The gravestone for baseball player Josh Gibson is shown at Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh on March 17, 2017. (Keith Srakocic/AP file)
With the Negro leagues' statistics added to Major League Baseball, Gibson’s .372 batting average surpassed Ty Cobb’s .367. At age 18, Gibson played his first professional game for the Memphis Red Sox in 1930.
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