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Originally Posted by Amazin69
(Still from that auction.)
I guess Baseball-Reference ceases to count the Negro Leagues as major leagues after 1948, presumably due to lowering of the talent level on account of increasing integration.
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A special committee of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) designed to address this topic has recommended that the records of the 1949 and 1950 Negro American League also be recognized as major league equivalents. However, I don't think that MLB has weighed in on the issue of those two years yet. Until MLB gives its official imprimatur, what other organizations or databases do must be considered less relevant. Right now, it's MLB's criterion that ends with the year 1948.