MLBbro.com, founded by veteran journalist and NABJ HOF Rob Parker, regularly spotlights Black and brown pro baseball players. The MSR does its best to keep pace with a similar emphasis on U.S.-born Black players at Minnesota Twins home games. The Twins this season had four Black players — position players Byron Buxton and Royce Lewis, […]
Negro Leagues
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New novel explores the life of Effa Manley, the first female Negro Leagues team owner
Effa Manley, the first female Negro Leagues team owner and the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, is the subject of Kaia Alderson’s new novel ‘In a League of Her Own.’
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Negro Leagues finally embraced as part of MLB history
MLB will play tribute to the Negro Leagues with a regular season game between San Francisco and St. Louis at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Baseball in Birmingham: Rickwood Field is living history
‘The Negro Leagues produced champions in more ways than one.’
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Museum prez envisions a Negro Leagues campus
‘Many young people and young adults are falling in love with the Negro Leagues through this gaming platform.’
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MLB needs to go all the way and pay Negro Leaguers
Last week MLB said it was going to recognize the legacy of the Negro Leagues by allowing the stats and records of the league 1920-1948 to be added to MLB’s.