Kansas City Negro League Museum Leader Talks Baseball Stat Impact

Again . . .

Another bright side for Kansas City.

Even if MANY stat geek baseball purists have a legit complaint about rewriting history . . . 

The move brings even more attention to a local institution.

Also . . . "Baseball purists" is an unfortunate term in this context but it's not necessarily hateful to object to this "correction" to the record . . . Here's a worthwhile perspective . . . 

Negro Leagues players were added to the MLB record books this week after a multi-year project by MLB, which decided in 2020 to reclassify the Negro Leagues as a major league. The undertaking involved researching and sifting through documents and scorecards from the past.

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick said the verified statistics only accounted for a piece of many players’ history, but that didn’t diminish the decision’s significance.

“This story is far more grandiose than mere statistics,” he said. “This story, in many ways, is bigger than the game of baseball, even though it is a tiny part of the great story of the game of baseball.”

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