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Baseball catcher Josh Gibson in an undated photo. Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367, when records of the Negro Leagues for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

LOVERRO: Gibson takes his rightful place among the all-time greats

By Thom Loverro

In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history. The league said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File) **FILE**

MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league

Associated Press

In this photo made on Friday, March 17, 2017, Sean Gibson, the Executive Director of the Josh Gibson Foundation, right, holds a replica Pittsburgh Crawfords jersey with Pittsburgh Opera General Director Christopher Hahn as they pose next to a poster at the Pittsburgh Opera House in Pittsburgh. Josh Gibson, Sean's great grandfather, played for two Negro League baseball teams in Pittsburgh, one of them the Pittsburgh Crawfords, and is considered one of the sport's greatest home run hitters. Gibson is featured in an opera about his life called &quot;The Summer King.&quot; It has its world premiere April 29, 2017 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

TRAVEL: Opera tells story of Negro Leagues baseball star Josh Gibson

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

Charlotte-Mecklenburg detective solves crimes with videos

By MARK WASHBURN - Associated Press

In this photo made on Monday, March 17, 2014, Louise Lippincott, the Curator of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, picks up a framed photograph made by Charles &quot;Teenie&quot; Harris at the museum in Pittsburgh. Harris made the image of New York Cubans' third baseman Horacio Martinez jumping over the base at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in 1941.The museum is hosting an exhibit of photographs by Harris that opened on March 22 and runs through Sept. 22, 2014. It features a collection of Harris' work highlighting the golden years of Negro League baseball. The show features images of greats such as Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson and documents the desegregation of local sandlot teams. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pittsburgh exhibit features Negro League pictures

By KEVIN BEGOS - Associated Press

Negro Leagues baseball featured on new stamps

By DOUG TUCKER - Associated Press

A toast to black baseball in D.C.

Tribute to Negro Leagues enhanced by touch of gray

For Gibson, a belated tribute