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Josh Gibson was a celebrated young athlete in Pittsburgh, where his family moved from Buena Vista, Virginia, when he was 12 years old. He was a catcher for a Black amateur team called Gimbels A.C. He ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of baseball legend Josh Gibson, about how statistics from the Negro Leagues have been integrated with Major League Baseball. Baseball is ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Sean Gibson, the great-grandson of baseball legend Josh Gibson, about how statistics from the Negro Leagues have... Josh Gibson's new place in the record books SCOTT ...

Baseball is a sport that is always in conversation with its history, and that conversation is mostly rooted in statistics. Fifty-six straight games, 4,256 hits, 73 home runs in a single season. Those ...