Josh Gibson becomes MLB’s career batting leader as Negro Leagues records incorporated

• Negro Leagues statistics incorporated into MLB records
• Gibson becomes MLB season and career batting leader

Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367, when Negro Leagues records for more than 2,300 players were incorporated Tuesday after a three-year research project.

Gibson's .466 average for the 1943 Homestead Grays became the season standard, followed by Charlie Chino' Smith's .451 for the 1929 New York Lincoln Giants. They overtook the .440 by Hugh Duffy for the National League's Boston team in 1894.