The numbers aren’t complete. Too much barnstorming and too many impromptu ball games for every home run and earned run to have been documented by a box score.
But that no longer will delay the inclusion of Negro League statistics in the official records of Major League Baseball. The stats of more than 2,300 players whose careers included games from seven different Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948 — the year after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier by debuting with the Dodgers — were added Wednesday.
You might say that at long last the numbers were integrated.