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Facebook groups lash out as Ty Cobb loses MLB batting record
ESPN· 5 hours agoThe backlash from Major League Baseball's announcement last week that it was absorbing Negro League...
Negro League legends like Mobile's Satchel Paige now recognized as MLB record holders
WPMI NBC 15· 2 days agoThe Negro Leagues were created for black baseball players, who wanted to play ball at the highest...
With Negro League stats, MLB links legends like never before
ESPN· 1 day agoWHEN MLB ANNOUNCED last week that its official statistical record would be updated with the treasure...
Will Willie Mays return home for MLB’s Negro League tribute at Rickwood Field?
Birmingham News· 2 days agoThe 93-year-old baseball icon was born near baseball's oldest ballpark and played there one season...
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 2 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
Why you think Ty Cobb was a racist (when he wasn't)
Newsweek· 2 days agoCobb, who played mostly for the Detroit Tigers from 1905 to 1928, was a pioneering superstar who had an astounding lifetime batting average of .367, a...
Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech in its entirety
Mountain View Telegraph· 4 days agoCivil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial in...
Closer Media Founders Zhang Xin, William Horberg on ‘Ezra’ and Producing Movies That Make You Feel...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 days ago“Ezra,” the story of a stand-up comic embarking on a road trip with his autistic son, is the kind of...
Negro Leagues statistics incorporated into MLB records; Josh Gibson becomes MLB batting leader
News 12 New Jersey· 7 days agoMajor League Baseball has decided to combine their players statistics with those who played in the Negro Leagues. The city was home to the New York Black Yankees from 1933 ...
Chris Paul vs. Blake Griffin beef, explained: Inside the strained relationship between Clippers...
Sporting News· 2 days agoIf you're tuning into FX's "Clipped" docudrama, you might wonder what happened to the "Lob City" era...