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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 1 day ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
Baseball legend Willie Mays says it’s ‘amazing’ he has 10 more hits after MLB integrated Negro...
CNN.com· 2 days agoBaseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last...
Negro Leagues players finally get some measure of statistical justice from MLB
The Hill· 3 days agoNo sport has a closer relationship with statistics than baseball. For decades major league owners...
Ty Cobb Dethroned as Baseball's Batting Champion, Nearly a Century After He Retired
The New York Sun· 6 days agoA baseball historian and author, Ralph Wimbish, remembers how a great Black ballplayer, Buck O’Neil,...
Hall of Fame Examines 150 Years of Black Baseball History
Smithsonian Magazine· 7 hours agoIt wasn’t until 1962 that Jackie Robinson became the first Black player inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame. Now, that same Hall of Fame has opened an ...
LEONARD GREENE: Recognition of Negro Leaguers cheated out of playing in MLB is long overdue
New York Daily News· 6 days agoThe flawed argument against properly recognizing the achievements of great Negro League baseball...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 4 days agoRachel Robinson couldn’t give her blessing at first. At that point, it had been nearly 50 years since her husband, Jackie Robinson, died ...
Why context, truth most important in MLB's integration of Negro League stats | Press Box Wag
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoHe died of a stroke, at 35, a few months before Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers in...
MLB honors Negro Leagues legends with new baseball cards designed by a former player: ‘They’re...
Philly.com· 2 days agoIt honored Josh Gibson, one of the most talented players to play in the Negro Leagues and the...
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Deadspin· 20 hours agoJackie Robinson wasn’t the only Black baseball player to suit up in the big leagues in 1947. After he broke the color line and became the first Black baseball ...