One player in particular is laying waste to the Major League record book: Josh Gibson. Negro Leagues superstar Josh Gibson creates a cloud of dust as he slides into home plate during the fourth inning ...

Hundreds of Black athletes who were shut out of Major League Baseball a century ago are now officially a part of it. The MLB announced on Wednesday that it has incorporated the statistics of more than ...

Baseball's record book is filled with numbers that define legacies and separate legends from greats. Some records stand so firm that even modern strategies and player management make them unassailable ...

There's a new slugging king in MLB history. His name is Josh Gibson. Gibson will officially be recognized as baseball's greatest-ever power hitter on Wednesday, the day when MLB will officially ...

Josh Gibson has long been considered one of the best baseball players to ever hold a bat, but you might not know his name. Gibson, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, never had ...

When Cal Raleigh makes history, you can be pretty sure somebody will let you know about it. When Shohei Ohtani makes history, there’s an excellent chance a few zillion headlines are coming — in ...

On Dec. 16, 2020, Sean Gibson awoke in Pittsburgh to a few inches of freshly fallen snow and a flurry of missed calls from friends and reporters. Major League Baseball had just announced it was ...

Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins, will host hundreds of delegates from the Society for American Baseball Research [SABR] Friday night. It’s been called “the conscience of Major League ...

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What used to be one of baseball’s most magical numbers — 61 home runs — now sits buried, eight lines deep, in the Major League Baseball record book. The number now at the top of that record book — 73 ...

In the millisecond before the hammer drops and another Major League Baseball record is tied or shattered, the noise is always the same: a still death rattle, silence coupled with an escalating ...