Does Artie Wilson's One Amazing Stat Change Baseball History? 

Howdy Ryan ! Great Show on Artie ! He was a P.C.L. superstar. The Oaks have a great history. My dad has the owner "Brick" Laws autograph, Milo Candini, Oaks announcer Bud Foster. I've done Shows on them. Artie was on that 1949 team with Jackie Jensen & Billy Martin. Even as a teenager, Billy was nuts. My Dad's Jr High PE Teacher hung out with Billy and told some of the stories to my Dad and some kids. Recently he told me that John Ritchey, the 1st Black in the P.C.L. gave his broken bat to my dad. It's long gone. C ya !

I was so happy to hear that Negro League stats were added to the record books. In my mind it was long overdue, and should have been done (at least as well as could have been researched back then) when the other leagues were added in 1969. From what I was reading, the research team was able to find a vast majority of the stats from the 1920’s, but because of the Great Depression stats were not kept track of as much during that time period. Then afterwards stats weren’t kept track of to the extent that they were in the 1920’s. But the research teams estimates that they have about 70% of the stats from the Negro Leagues. That’s quite a large percentage of statistics that they were able to discover. It will be interesting to see what additional stats they are able to discover in the years to come, and how they will impact the record books. I enjoyed learning about Artie Wilson. I was unfamiliar with him, but it is interesting to think that he could be the most recent player to have hit .400. The only set that I am familiar with that Wilson has a card in is the 1952 Mother’s Cookies PCL set. Mostly cause Chuck Connors has a card in that set. Have a great week!