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BCauley 12-16-2020 10:53 AM

"Major League Baseball officially elevates Negro Leagues to 'Major League' status"
 
From the article:

"To culminate MLB's centennial celebration of the Negro Leagues, Major League Baseball "is correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history" and is recognizing them as a "Major League."

“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice," said Commissioner Rob Manfred in a statement on Wednesday. "We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.”

MLB will integrate statistics and records from seven professional Negro Leagues that operated from 1920-1948 and include approximately 3,400 players as part of its history.
"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ry/3922455001/

Fred 12-16-2020 11:43 AM

There's another thread on the same topic. Same response posted here as the other thread.

Here's a great place to start:

http://www.seamheads.com/NegroLgs/index.php

Bryant Gumbel had a really cool segment on this recently. The guy that put this together did a lot of research.

triwak 12-16-2020 11:44 AM

Yes, this thread should be combined with the other one.

BCauley 12-16-2020 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by triwak (Post 2046116)
Yes, this thread should be combined with the other one.

Yeah, I agree. I think the other poster and I created separate posts at the same time.

Tried to delete mine but no idea how to do so.


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