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The History of Black Baseball Players, on Full Display
New York Times· 2 weeks agoOctavius Catto’s impact was mostly unknown here at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum,...
Project aims to get Atlanta’s oldest Black cemetery added to National Register for Historic Places
WSB Radio· 4 hours agoIf the cemetery could make it on the National Register for Historic Places, its history could...
This Date in Baseball - Reggie Sanders became 5th player in MLB history with 300 HRs and 300 SBs
Associated Press· 5 days ago1921 — Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees became baseball’s career home run leader by hitting his...
Detroit Tigers' Justyn-Henry Malloy has Hank Aaron's No. 44, thanks to Gary Jones
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoDetroit Tigers rookie Justyn-Henry Malloy wore two numbers — No. 36 and No. 44 — within his first...
JOSH GIBSON'S NEW PLACE IN THE RECORD BOOKS
NPR· 2 weeks agoSo we're fine with that. DETROW: Yeah. And baseball fans have a long history of cranky arguments about statistics and records, and sometimes it's a really ...
Everyone Should Know About Rickwood Field, the Alabama Park Where Baseball Legends Made History
Smithsonian Magazine· 2 days agoEight decades ago, Ron Teasley, a teenage baseball player from Detroit, experienced an athletic...
Golden Park gets a new name as Columbus baseball stadium goes through $50M renovations
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 3 days ago“What a crowd,” Laven told the folks attending the ceremony. “This is a baseball town.” It’s a ...
10 Cent Beer Night: 50 years ago, Cleveland's ill-fated MLB promotion ended in a riot
USA Today· 1 week ago"I've never really talked about this before," Dave Duncan, who was on the Cleveland Municipal...
Negro League legends like Mobile's Satchel Paige now recognized as MLB record holders
WPMI NBC 15· 1 week agoThe Negro Leagues were created for black baseball players, who wanted to play ball at the highest...
Condescension masquerading as justice: MLB tries to whitewash its history
The Hill· 1 week agoMajor League Baseball (MLB) is in the middle of rewriting its history. MLB would like to be...
