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How Jackie Robinson’s wife, Rachel, helped him break baseball’s color line
San Antonio Express-News· 16 hours ago(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary...
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Deadspin· 5 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 ...
MLB honors Negro Leagues legends with new baseball cards designed by a former player: ‘They’re...
Philly.com· 1 day agoIt honored Josh Gibson, one of the most talented players to play in the Negro Leagues and the...
Baseball legend Willie Mays says it’s ‘amazing’ he has 10 more hits after MLB integrated Negro...
CNN.com· 1 day agoBaseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last...
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,...
Why context, truth most important in MLB's integration of Negro League stats | Press Box Wag
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoHe died of a stroke, at 35, a few months before Jackie Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers in...
The fight over Jackie Robinson
Washington Post· 3 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 ...
The Monday After: KSU Stark educator overjoyed as Negro League stats join Baseball HOF
The Canton Repository· 4 days ago– Buck Leonard, acceptance speech, National Baseball Hall of Fame, quoted in "Buck Leonard, the...
LEONARD GREENE: Recognition of Negro Leaguers cheated out of playing in MLB is long overdue
New York Daily News· 5 days agoThe flawed argument against properly recognizing the achievements of great Negro League baseball...
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...