2006-08-12 05:41:56 · 11 answers · asked by nevilletigers7 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
The short answer is, his HR total will probably never be known.
Re: ***** League Statistics, there is good news and bad news:
The good news is that we know a lot more than we did 30 years ago.The bad news is that even if we recorded the results of every existing box score we would not have a very good database. In many old boxscores AB's are not recorded, so something as simple as batting average cannot be calculated. Even in later boxes RBI's might not be mentioned. Walks are hit
and miss, so OBA is also up in the air. Also, not every game has a boxscore.
Many times only a final score would be reported. This is especially true for the years during WWII. Also, teams in big cities got better coverage, so a slugger in a smaller market loses home runs simply because when we search for them today we find that nobody was there to record his feats.
The ***** Leagues themselves from time to time tried to compile seasonal statistics, but these too were incomplete.
Re: Gibson's HR total... His HOF Plaque credits him with "Almost 800 HRs" and other sources list numbers close to 1,000, and while these are impressive numbers, it is important to remember
that they were made against all levels of competition. ***** Leaguers might play two games against local talent for every game against ***** League talent. To put this in a different light, home many home runs should Babe Ruth get credit for if we include all of his spring training home runs, his minor league home runs, his barnstorming home runs, the home runs he hit in Japan, his post-season home runs, etc. ?
It is important to remember that Satchel Paige never had a 20-win season in official ***** League play (although some of this is due to the fact that it was more profitable for his owners to rent him out than it was for them to let him pitch for their teams). In short, these numbers are not a good measuring stick because
we have no idea how to normalize for the talent level that they faced.
I believe that Gibson was the best hitting catcher ever to play baseball (and could very well have been the best hitter ever, period)... but unfortunately, ***** League stats were never kept very well by the leagues themselves, and efforts to reassemble the data today (based on existing box scores) are spotty at best.
2006-08-12 06:09:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was Told he Almost Hit 1000 974
2006-08-12 09:31:26 · answer #2 · answered by CardsFan527 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Josh Gibson hit a total of 972 homeruns.
http://digamma.net/btfwiki/index.php?title=Josh_Gibson&printable=yes
2006-08-12 05:49:14 · answer #3 · answered by lakersforlife 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
785
2006-08-12 05:46:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
His Hall of Fame plaque says that he hit almost 800 home runs in his career.
2006-08-12 11:17:31 · answer #5 · answered by CSUFGrad2006 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
999 carrer home runs I suggest you go to Cooperstown they tell alot about the ***** Leagues.
2006-08-12 09:09:04 · answer #6 · answered by roburo2002 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
In a better world. black ball players would have allowed in MLB if it weren't for racism which still exists in nascar. That is why all pre -Jakie Robinson or pre-integration baseball records are all suspect in my book.
2006-08-12 15:34:52 · answer #7 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
almost 800
2006-08-15 08:15:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
"Almost 800"
2006-08-12 07:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by beaufort_22 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i dont remember but he was a good baseball player....
2006-08-12 05:45:28 · answer #10 · answered by philly00059 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋