Major League Baseball, the monopoly that runs professional baseball throughout the US, announced that as of Wednesday, it will include statistics from the segregationist Negro Leagues in its official records, NBC News reports. Various professional leagues for only Black players, excluded from MLB teams, ran from the 1880s to 1951.
MLB previously classified six Negro Leagues that operated from 1920 to 1948 as “major league” and incorporated their statistics into the record books. For the last three years, MLB statisticians have been compiling statistics that will officially be part of the league’s canon, which will cause some tears for Nick Fuentes and other white nationalists. For example, Negro League great Josh Gibson now owns the record for the highest single-season batting average, and his career Negro Leagues batting average, slugging percentage and OPS will rank him above Babe Ruth and noted racist Ty Cobb.