Negro Leagues

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May 29, 2024
After a research project, Gibson became Major League Baseball’s career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb’s.
The Newark Eagles in Dugout in 1936, from "The League," a new documentary about the Negro Leagues
July 25, 2023
A new documentary about the Negro Leagues celebrates the beauty of Black baseball and explores what we lost when MLB…
December 6, 2021
Pro baseball pioneers Buck O'Neil, Bud Fowler, and Minnie Miñoso are set to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall…
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December 16, 2020
The MLB will recognize the Negro Leagues as a Major League and gives 3,400 players their "overdue recognition."
June 29, 2020
Barack Obama and a host of prominent leaders and entertainers celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro…
December 21, 2017
Johnson was just one of three women to play in the leagues
March 22, 2017
An opera about Negro Leagues baseball star Josh Gibson, whose power hitting rivaled Babe Ruth's, will have its world premiere…
March 25, 2014
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new exhibit at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art shows the vibrant world of Negro League baseball…
August 6, 2013
MSNBC - Baseball absorbed a painful blow Monday when the league handed down the most severe punishment in decades—13 player…
July 6, 2012
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine sat back in the visiting clubhouse at Kauffman Stadium earlier…
June 6, 2012
DALLAS - William "Bill" Blair, a former Negro League baseball pitcher, has donated newspapers, photographs and other personal memorabilia to…
April 18, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Of the 30 MLB teams, 10 of them began the season with no more than one African-American…
November 10, 2011
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Kansas City Royals have donated $10,000 to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in support…
July 20, 2011
VIDEO - We are now in the thick of the season owned in large part by the boys of summer,…
May 6, 2011
The Giants will mark the occasion with a pregame ceremony that will include tributes from some of his former teammates…
February 14, 2011
DETROIT (AP) - Cecil Kaiser, a diminutive left-hander who made $700 a month at the height of his Negro Leagues…
August 2, 2010
PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) - "And I don't have many wrinkles," he says in Spanish. He smiles, then allows in…