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Negro Leagues

The history of the Negro Leagues is just one of many large displays that are included in the MLB FanFest at the Kansas City Convention Center, downtown. The attraction opens Friday July 6, 2012. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Rich Sugg)

Negro Leagues Museum getting All-Star game boost

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine sat back in the visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium earlier this season, his feet propped up on the desk, and spoke glowingly of his first visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum...
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Living Negro Leagues legend adds to UTA's collections library

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DALLAS - William "Bill" Blair, a former Negro League baseball pitcher, has donated newspapers, photographs and other personal memorabilia to the University of Texas at Arlington's Special Collections Library.
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Number of African-American MLB players at historic low

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - Of the 30 MLB teams, 10 of them began the season with no more than one African-American player on the roster...
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Royals donate $10K to Negro Leagues museum

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Royals have donated $10,000 to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in support of a Buck O'Neil centennial celebration...
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Forgotten Negro league players finally get recognition

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VIDEO - We are now in the thick of the season owned in large part by the boys of summer, carrying out America's past time nightly on major-league diamonds...
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Willie Mays turns 80 years old: Baseball hails the Hall of Famer

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The Giants will mark the occasion with a pregame ceremony that will include tributes from some of his former teammates with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League...
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Former Negro Leagues pitcher Cecil Kaiser dies

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DETROIT (AP) - Cecil Kaiser, a diminutive left-hander who made $700 a month at the height of his Negro Leagues pitching career in the 1940s, died Monday at the age of 94...
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Ex-Negro league baseball star still working at 104

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PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) - "And I don't have many wrinkles," he says in Spanish. He smiles, then allows in English: "Just a little bit."...
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