DYK: #JoshGibson is MLB's all-time leader in batting average (.371), slugging percentage (.719) and OPS (1.176).
Satchel Paige once said of Gibson, “You look for his weakness and while you're looking for it, he’s liable to hit 45 home runs.” #BlackHistoryMonth
“I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron… they were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson.” - Monty Irvin about #JoshGibson
“You could put a fence up in heaven and Josh would still hit it over.”
- #SatchelPaige about #JoshGIbson
Josh Gibson hit 800+ homers and still had to wait 80 years to be considered a big leaguer.
They say Ruth was the King — but was it Gibson that was the true Sultan of Swat?
#rundmc #downwiththeking
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A mosaic art piece made from cut baseball cards, of Hall of Fame Negro league slugger Josh Gibson
Super close to done with King Josh. #cuttradingcards #cutsportscards #mosaic #HomeRunKings #JoshGibson
Congratulations to the Homestead Grays on their back-to -back victories this weekend at the Josh Gibson 12U Negro Leagues Classic Championship in the Hill District.
Keep up the hustle!
Thank you to the Josh Gibson Foundation for supporting our youth!
#JG20MVP #JoshGibson #NegroLeagues #GivingBack
Home Run derby tonight . My bet is on O’Neil Cruz from Pittsburgh. If he is half as good as another Pittsburgh ball player then he will win it.
#JoshGibson .
Homestead Grays baseball legend Josh Gibson on the Waterfront Mall mural, Pittsburgh PA, USA
Mural of Homestead Grays baseball legend Josh Gibson at the Waterfront Mall
#photography #JoshGibson #baseball #HomesteadGrays #NegroLeagues #WaterfrontPGH #412Love #Yinz #Pittsburgh
Posted for the #BlueSkyArtShow taking place all day Saturday, 12 July 2025. The theme is #SummerDaze
“I hit balls over buildings, over walls, and over fences—but I never got the chance to do it in the majors.”
- #JoshGibson
Me in the dugout
BaseballForAll.com. Girls at Josh Gibson Field with his grandson
Anyone know the story of #JoshGibson from the #Negroleauge?
At his field today, and @pirates.com game tonight recognizing this 800 home run super slugger in #baseball thanks to his grandson, in the picture talking to BaseballForAll.com girls 12u playing right now
The greatest hitter to ever live.
Josh Gibson wasn’t the black Babe Ruth, Babe Ruth was the white Josh Gibson.
#NegroLeagues #HomesteadGrays
#JoshGibson
Josh Gibson: Baseball's Unrecognized Legend #BaseballHallOfFame #JoshGibson #NegroLeagues #BaseballHistory #UnrecognizedLegends #SportsHistory #EmotionalImpact #OverlookedAchievements #BaseballRecords #MLB
I was recently gifted this #JoshGibson bobblehead and I added it to the office collection. #PittsburghCrawfords #NegroLeagues @baseballhall.org
“You look for his weakness and while you’re lookin’ for it, he’s liable to hit 45 home runs.”
— Satchel Paige about #JoshGibson
On this date in 1911, MLB’s career batting average leader Josh Gibson was born in Buena Vista, GA.
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“No, in my heart it [referring to Gibson’s purported 84 HRs in 1936] belongs to Josh Gibson. . . . If Josh Gibson is the home run king, recognize it.”
- #JoshGibson #HomeRunKing
"[T]he statistics of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues ballplayers from 1920 to 1948 have been officially incorporated into MLB’s historical records," the league announced last month.
#recordbooks #joshgibson #baberuth #tycobb #hankaaron #GOAT🐐 #socialjustice
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I created this piece back in 2021 to support the #JoshGibson Foundation and the #JG20MVP campaign.
Celebrating today as Josh sits atop several statistical leaderboards, including that for career batting average.
There goes another statue. #JoshGibson #TyCobb #Baseball #Woke #MLB #Racism #MAGA #Trump #NegroLeague #ConfederateStatues
Hanging with Dolores Huerta, celebrating Jackie Robinson Day at the Albuquerque Isotopes game and meeting Pete Gibson, the grandson of Negro League legend Josh Gibson. All this past weekend.
#civilrights #jackierobinson #joshgibson #breakingbarriers #albuquerque #history #family
