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Major League Baseball’s embrace of the Negro Leagues is long overdue. The welcome mat into the record books has been a long time coming but serves as a fitting leadup to the Road to Rickwood ...

Now, baseball’s recognition of the Negro ... league system. Once called ‘the Jackie Robinson of country,’ Pride was the genre’s first Black superstar. He was inducted into the Country ...

Members of the Kentucky – Indiana Negro League all-stars took to Patsy ... Chester-Burton said the mix of music and baseball is something the Black community has always related to and hopes ...

Decades worth of Negro League figures are now part of the Major League Baseball’s record books. Poet, historian, and author Rowan Ricardo Phillips argues that MLB should do more. Keep KCRW Independent ...

Major League Baseball has taken steps to honor the Negro leagues that thrived during the era of racial segregation, but far less attention has been given to the semiprofessional Black baseball ...

But in order to understand the struggle, you don't have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball stadium in the country. Across more than 113 years, it's hosted Negro League ...

A diverse mix of fans celebrated a tribute to the Negro Leagues and honored the passing of Willie Mays. On June 20, Major League Baseball (MLB ... with loud-playing music, including Aretha ...