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Negro-League Players Don’t Belong in the MLB Record Books
The Atlantic· 3 days agoWhat makes the achievement particularly unusual is that Gibson has been dead since 1947. Gibson’s...
Former Negro League players honored by Lookouts, Bessie Smith Hall - WDEF
WDEF Chattanooga· 2 days agoEAST RIDGE, Tenn. (WDEF)- The Chattanooga Lookouts and Bessie Smith Hall have teamed up to honor...
Nashville natives take place among baseball's statistical greats
Axios· 6 days agoWhen Major League Baseball added the accomplishments of Negro League players to its official...
‘Road to Rickwood’: Don’t Fight Back
Birmingham News· 5 days agoIn the third episode in the “Road to Rickwood” podcast series, the show continues with the peak of segregation in Birmingham during the 1960s, and how it...
Johnson: Condoleezza Rice recalls 'playing' at Rickwood, mom and Willie Mays
Birmingham News· 1 day agoCondoleezza Rice once played at Rickwood Field. “I was, like, seven,” Rice is remembering, “and it...
Youngstown man who played pro baseball in the ’50s hopes MLB will recognize his stats
WKBN 27 Youngstown· 6 days agoBaseball took a big step about two weeks ago to accept statistics from what was called the Negro...
'Satchel' recalls the iconic pitcher who helped integrate Major League Baseball
NPR· 2 days agoIt was called the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law-Breakers, and the school was set up along the style dictated by Booker T. Washington, which was the movement ...
James Lawson's booming voice and loving spirit left a lasting mark on this UCLA professor
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 day agoHe peppered them with questions about voting rights, lynching and racial segregation and explained...
The Truth Behind Claims Black People Couldn't Buy Vanilla Ice Cream Under Jim Crow
Snopes via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe same post connected Black people's love of butter pecan ice cream as having grown out of...
Episode 1: The Holy Grail of Baseball
WUSF 89.7· 3 days agoBirmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the American Civil Rights Movement. But in order to understand the struggle, you don’t have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball
