Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that they are officially recognizing the Negro Leagues as a Major League. MLB, which celebrated the Negro Leagues’ 100th anniversary this past August, will incorporate the stats accumulated by Negro League players from 1928-1940 into its record books.
“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a press release. “We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.