Baseball-Reference adds Negro League stats

[Rex Racer]

It's a shame that we can't go back in time and integrate baseball so we could see how the players (all of them) would have fared against the very best competition of both races.

Would Josh Gibson have hit 700 homers against MLB pitching?

Would Babe Ruth have hit 715 if some of the great Negro league pitchers were in MLB.

And so on and so forth.

 

[Nosferatu]

Would Babe Ruth have hit 715 if some of the great Negro league pitchers were in MLB.

He didn't hit 715 against whitey!

 

[broncosmitty]

He didn't hit 715 against whitey!

He actually did though.

Did Babe Ruth actually hit 715 homers?

"Greatest drawing card in history of baseball. Holder of many home run and other batting records. Gathered 714 home runs in addition to fifteen in World Series." -- Babe Ruth's plaque at the Baseball Hall of FameFor a week in late April and early May 1969, Babe Ruth actually had 715

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