As of today the MLB record books are integrating Negro Leagues records and including Negro League performances and history in the official record-keeping of major professional baseball.
This is fun for two reasons:
1) The unsurprising amount of hand-wringing from people who act like it's heresy to include those stats alongside "real" MLB ones without recognizing that all this move does is bring the Negro Leagues records up to the same point that numerous other leagues of the early days of organized pro baseball. The official record book of Major League Baseball has, since the 1960s, included records from 4 other major pro leagues from the late 1800s to mid 1910s that are not necessarily direct ancestors of the modern AL and NL but have been considered equivalent in talent and competition to the preeminent pro baseball of their eras. The fact that the Negro Leagues were not afforded the same consideration and inclusion was mostly down to a) racism and b) a lack of concrete and verified records of Negro Leagues competition. With the former having lessened with the passage of time and the latter having been rectified to the best of anyone's ability recently with a massive project to research, correct, restore, and verify as many game results and performances as possible, it's now reasonable to be able to put the Negro Leagues history alongside those other leagues as a major pro league of roughly equivlanet talent.
and 2) The fact that notoriously, virulently racist (even by the low standards of the time) Ty Cobb gets his career batting average record supplanted by Josh Gibson is hilarious.
