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Projecting Negro Leagues legends' counting stats
Major League Baseball· 12 hours agoBecause of the recent incorporation of Negro Leagues statistics into the Major League record books, we finally get to see the great Negro Leaguers take...
Baseball gambling scandals: Padres' Tucupita Marcano joins Shohei Ohtani's interpreter, Pete Rose,...
CBS Sports· 16 hours agoOn Monday, Lindsey Adler and Jared Diamond of the Wall Street Journal reported that San Diego Padres...
Church Pews and Bleachers : Road to Rickwood
NPR· 9 hours agoThe 1940s are the heyday for Black baseball in Alabama, the peak of the Negro Leagues – starring a high schooler named Willie Mays. But when the Major Leagues integrate, Black teams everywhere ...
Willie Mays woke up with 10 more MLB hits on Wednesday
Birmingham News· 6 days agoMays is among the Negro Leagues players with Alabama baseball roots who have had their exploits on...
‘Road to Rickwood’: Church Pews and Bleachers
Birmingham News· 3 hours agoRoy Wood Jr., the host of the series, continues to speak with surviving players from the Birmingham Black Barons about the soaring highs and painful lows...
Giants set to play at historic Rickwood Field, honor Negro Leagues
KTVU· 11 hours agoThe San Francisco Giants will make history on June 20, when they take a road trip to Birmingham,...
Former Alabama prep star homers in return to big leagues
Birmingham News· 3 hours agoIn his first Major League game since April 4, 2023, former Oak Mountain High School standout David...
Why you think Ty Cobb was a racist (when he wasn't)
Newsweek· 7 hours 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...
How Negro Leagues stats rewrite MLB records: More hits for Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, other...
CBS Sports· 6 days agoApproximately 3,400 players who played in the Negro Leagues are now part of MLB's official record
Why context, truth most important in MLB's integration of Negro League stats | Press Box Wag
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoCHICAGO — Josh Gibson was so slack-jaw impressive playing baseball in the 1930s and ‘40s against...
