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Willie Mays thegrio.com
June 21, 2023
Major League Baseball will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 2024,…
August 6, 2013
MSNBC - Baseball absorbed a painful blow Monday when the league handed down the most severe punishment in decades—13 player…
August 6, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Martin Bashir used his Clean The Air segment to address the selfishness of Alex Rodriguez and selflessness…
August 6, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Monday honored former baseball players in the Negro League, a haven for African-American…
April 15, 2013
VIDEO - Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier, but it was his play in the Negro League that got him…
April 2, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) - Michelle Obama said Tuesday that a new movie chronicling Jackie Robinson's rise through Major League Baseball left…
November 3, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - From the Grand Canyon in Arizona to Shenandoah in Virginia, there are 58 National Parks in the…
July 15, 2010
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - The Negro Leagues Grave Marker Project seeks out former Negro League players buried without headstones and…
July 1, 2010
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Three baseball fans continue their quest to locate every former Negro leagues player without a headstone…
December 7, 2009
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - This is a critical time for the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum as it winds down…
June 14, 2009
BRUCE MILES (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald SCHAUMBURG, Illl. (AP) — Louis Clarizio remembers riding the buses. He remembers seeing the