Fig. 04 · Five categories, drawn as lanes
The names on the left held the records. The names on the right always earned them.
Each lane is a category. Each dot is a player, placed at the position his number puts him on the axis. Pre-2024, the lanes carry only Major League players. Flip the switch, and the dots appear that the bookkeepers had not been counting. None of them moves. They were already there.
Include Negro Leagues
Fig. 04b · How the rankings rearranged
These numbers were always true.
We just weren't looking at them.
SEAN GIBSON
great-grandson of Josh Gibson
quoted on the May 2024 merger