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Tampa Baseball Museum shares impact of MLB-Negro Leagues stats integration
WFLA via Yahoo Sports· 11 hours agoPlayers like Sarasota native and Hall of Famer Buck O'Neil and Tampa native Dirk Gibbons, who...
Trotter: Why MLB's inclusion of Negro Leagues statistics should come with an asterisk
New York Times· 6 days agoThe announcement that Major League Baseball is now integrating statistics from the Negro Leagues...
Ty Cobb Dethroned as Baseball's Batting Champion, Nearly a Century After He Retired
The New York Sun· 5 days agoA baseball historian and author, Ralph Wimbish, remembers how a great Black ballplayer, Buck O’Neil,...
A Whittier baseball museum is ready to step up to the plate after Negro League integration
Whittier Daily News· 6 days agoFor nearly a decade, the one-of-a-kind Institute for Baseball Studies at Whittier College has...
Why you think Ty Cobb was a racist (when he wasn't)
Newsweek· 3 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...
Negro League baseball players are finally recognized in MLB’s record books - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoAfter some gentle prodding, he mentioned such hardball heroes as Willie...Walker became the first — and last — Black man on a Major League Baseball team until Jackie
Jim Leyland's No. 10 to be retired by Detroit Tigers on Aug. 3
San Francisco Chronicle· 3 days agoJim Leyland's No. 10 will be retired by the Detroit Tigers during a ceremony on Aug. 3. The team...
The History of Black Baseball Players, on Full Display
New York Times· 6 days agoAs the number of African American players dwindles, a new exhibit at the Hall of Fame traces 150...
The fiercest political clash in sports
Washington Post· 16 hours agoImmediately, the success thrust her into the fiercest political battle in American sports. Sadie Schreiner became the latest exception made to seem like...
NJ man sought on attempted murder, sex assault charges arrested in Richmond
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 6 hours agoCaream Davis, 46, of Irvington, near Newark is facing three first-degree counts along with multiple...