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Originally Posted by Snakster66
Negro Leagues were designated as "major leagues" in 2020. So why wouldn't the stats count at that point? MLB and Elias have spent the last four years researching and validating stats.
Major Leagues (and associated stats) is not just National League and American League. There's also:
Federal League
American Association
Players League
Union Association
National Association
The stats count as official MLB stats for those leagues as well. Long live the Newark Pepper and Fort Wayne Kekiongas!
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So why not just apply revisionist history to every record in the book? "They" could even make the outcome whatever they want it to be. Heck, I'm still hung up with Marris tying Ruth even though he had 8 more games, and Sosa/ McGwire beating it with steroids.
The Roman conquerors of Britain played a game called paganica, where a bent stick was used to hit a feather stuffed leather ball about 2,000 years ago. Perhaps we could apply revisionist policy to that, declare them PGA tour equivalents, and find some record to put on the books.
Bottom line: Declaring something "major league", by decree 100 years later is simply applying populist political correctness to something that was nothing of the sort at the time. History is history, you cannot change it, but hopefully we learn from it.