Major League Baseball announced Wednesday it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as major league and recognizing their statistics and records. For some, the move is only a step toward true appreciation of the greatness of those players and the neglect they experienced.
Major League Baseball on Wednesday announced that records of Negro Leagues players will be included in the game's official statistics, in a "long overdue recognition." Before Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball's race barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Black players were barred from …
There’s a phrase coined, likely by some old white guy, that goes “winners write the history books.” In the case of Major League Baseball, not only do …
MLB announced on Wednesday morning that seven distinct Negro Leagues will be given official “major league” status, a long-overdue correction related …
On August 29, 1973, 42-year-old Met Willie Mays smacked a fifth-inning single to left off Padres southpaw Rich Troedson, driving in Bud Harrelson …
Major League Baseball’s reclassification Wednesday of the Negro Leagues will correct “a longtime oversight in the game’s history” and officially …
The National Baseball Hall of Fame includes 37 members who were inducted largely or entirely based on their careers in the Negro Leagues. But there …
This is a story that begins with Negro League baseball players having a cup of coffee in New Mexico. Whether they actually drank coffee is unknown. …
Baseball had a chance. It was 1869. The Pythian Base Ball Club of Philadelphia played the Philadelphia Olympics. Not a well-pitched game: Olympics 44, Pythian 23. It was noteworthy, however, because Pythian players were Black and the Olympics players were White. Against one another, they played …
A version of this story was first published in November, 2020, a few weeks before MLB announced that Negro League stats were being made part of the …
CLEVELAND — Perhaps you've heard of Negro League legends, like Josh Gibson—often referred to as the “Black Babe Ruth." or Jackie Robinson, the first …
EXCLUSIVE: Sam Pollard has been tapped to direct The League, a documentary centered on the tumultuous journey of Negro league baseball. Ahmir …
If you only had one tank of gas to go to the destination of your choice, where would you go? COVID-19 has made it very difficult to find activities …
Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty ImagesThe Negro Leagues are celebrating their centennial and it is has become more clearer than ever that future …
By onOctober 20, 2020 in At the Ballpark A century after Rube Foster gathered his fellow team owners at the Kansas City YMCA to form the Negro National …
As the country reckons with various racial injustices throughout its history, baseball — which prides itself on being "America's Pastime" — must do the same. The 100th anniversary of Rube Foster founding the Negro National League, and the accompanying #TipYourCap social media campaign, provides an …
Baseball's Negro Leagues were formally founded a hundred years ago this week. They should never have had to exist — but they sure had some glorious players and times. Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell, and many more stars who couldn't play in the major leagues because of the cruelty of …
