Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball

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The result was WP:SNOW kept. BD2412 T 18:53, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

List of Negro league baseball players who played in Major League Baseball[edit]

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In December 2020, Major League Baseball reclassified the 1920–48 Negro leagues as major leagues and their stats are now part of the canon of Major League Baseball. There is therefore no distinction between these leagues and this list has lost its notability. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Sportspeople, Lists of people, and Baseball. Dennis C. Abrams (talk) 17:32, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep MLB did change the distinction in 2020, but that doesn't the fact that these players lived in a world where they couldn't play in MLB, until Jackie broke the color barrier (and even then integration was still slow after that). The page could use some more sources and rewriting with the change in MLB record keeping. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:43, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep. as Muboshgu says, MLB after the fact saying they were major leagues doesn't change that it's a notable fact that a player played in the Negro Leagues and then in Major League Baseball. MLB.com itself still thinks of that as a notable distinction as of Feb. 2022: These stars got their start in Negro Leagues, as one example of how reliable sources still treat this as a notable list. Skynxnex (talk) 19:13, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Notability is WP:NOTTEMPORARY. As already stated, these players lived in a world where they were prohibited from playing in Major League Baseball. Just because MLB has now integrated the Negro League records into their records does not change that fact. — Jkudlick ⚓ (talk) 20:13, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per the above rationales. In those days, there was a very clear distinction between the major leagues and the negro leagues. MLB cannot retroactively change the way that things were. LEPRICAVARK (talk) 21:18, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per all above; MLB did recognize the stats, but other than that they were both completely separate leagues, along with different record-keeping procedures. It doesn't invalidate the Negro Leagues in any sense at all. Nate • (chatter) 23:26, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong keep per others above, and I urge withdrawal of this nomination. Newyorkbrad (talk) 00:01, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per Muboshgu and others. The Negro Leagues may be considered Major Leagues now, but when they played they were not and so the distinction is meaningful. Perhaps there is a better way to reword the title (although I suspect the result would be more unwieldy than it is worth) but that is no reason to delete. Rlendog (talk) 18:32, 5 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.