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Josh Gibson
Ed, I have a question about major league baseball, Barry Bonds, and everybody concerned about records, broken or not broken. What about Josh Gibson and all the records from the Negro Leagues that nobody wants to talk about. Josh Gibson had over 800 home runs. Can anybody top that without using steroids? Even on steroids, you can’t break that record. Let’s be fair and look at Josh Gibson’s record and the Negro Leagues.
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I would agree with you, if they could prove the claim of “over 800 home runs.” Nobody seems to be able to prove it. The Baseball Hall of Fame’s Special Committee on the Negro Leagues says he hit 224 homers in 2,375 at-bats against top black teams, 2 in 56 at-bats against white major-league pitchers and 44 in 450 at-bats in the Mexican League. The Negro League did not keep records. There are no statistics. The 224 homers were culled from old newspaper reports. But I get your point. So let’s take this conversation over to the BackTalk Blog at trentonian.com. I’d like to get to the bottom of this issue.
— Ed. Note
posted by Trentonian Editor at
12:38 AM
1 Comments:
Spare me. Can't you see there's no comparing the two leagues. Reality is that the defunct league would have to work OT to even come close to modern-day baseball. Unless you can go back into time to compare the two. Maybe then you have an argument. Look, I can't say, no one can say, who would be better when. Choosing between the leagues is impossible. Kind of like comparing apples and oranges, players back then would land in the ER against the strongmen playing today. Suit yourself if you think the old-timers would be good today.
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