By Davis Carlton
A few years ago Major League Baseball announced their plan to acknowledge the long-defunct Negro Leagues as full-fledged “major leagues” and planned on integrating Negro League statistics into official MLB records. I wrote a response when this was announced, and I believe my observations at the time are just as valid and relevant today. The MLB just announced that it has completed a three year study of the Negro Leagues and is now ready to officially integrate their records. The results are not without controversy, with many questioning the legitimacy of the comparisons between Negro League statistics with the traditional Major Leagues on several grounds.