Earlier this year a major announcement was made that baseball’s Negro Leagues would officially (finally) be recognized as major leagues. One of the major things that had long been a gap in assessing the true talent of Negro Leagues player had been a lot of missing information in terms of statistics.
Now, that gap has been vastly improved, as Baseball Reference has updated their database to include substantially more information on Negro Leagues players.
Here is some of the major coverage of this new update that will surely delight historical stats nerds everywhere.
- Baseball Reference has updated their stat information on major Negro Leagues players to now give a better all-around picture of these baseball legends.