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Apr 23, 2022 · Nuccio DiNuzzo / Getty Images. April 15, 2022, marked the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of Major League Baseball through the entrance of Jackie Robinson, wearing the uniform of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Since that April of 1947, Robinson achieved legendary status for his courage, discipline and on-field performance, not to mention his ...
May 30, 2024 · The year 2020 served as a catalyst for a reconsideration of that exclusion. The year coincided with various centennial celebrations of the founding of the Negro Leagues, specifically, the point when Rube Foster and seven other owners of independent Black baseball teams banded together to form the first Negro National League. Meanwhile, the ...
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Given the injustices of the 1890s – sharecropping, lynchings, disenfranchisement and the Supreme Court’s sanctioning of segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson – exclusion from Major League Baseball was hardly the most grievous injury African Americans suffered. But it mattered. Their absence denied them the chance to participate in a very visible arena ...
Gus Greenlee, who ran the popular lottery known as the numbers game, revived the league in Pittsburgh in 1933 after a sandlot club called the Crawfords, which included the young slugger Josh Gibson, approached him for support. He agreed to pay them salaries and reinforced their roster with the addition of flamethrower Satchel Paige. Greenlee went o...
For Major League Baseball, no moment was more transformative than the arrival of Jackie Robinson, who, in 1947, paved the way for African Americans and darker-skinned Latinos to reshape the game. But integration destroyed the Negro Leagues, plucking its young stars – Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Roy Campanella and Ernie Banks – who brought their fans ...
Dec 16, 2020 · The causes of the long delay aren’t much of a mystery. As we detailed in August, the exclusion of the Negro Leagues from the official list of major leagues stemmed from the findings of MLB’s ...
- Ben Lindbergh
Jun 2, 2024 · In 2020, baseball entered a pandemic-shortened season of just 60 games, instead of the usual 162, into the record books. John Thorn, MLB’s official historian, told The Athletic that the 2020 ...
- Doug Glanville
Jun 24, 2017 · Noting the new attendance records that had been set by teams in Organized Baseball since the inclusion of black players, he wrote in early September, “By box office records, Old Gus is proving that the greatest single new appeal the great old game has come up with in years is the presence and play of Negro players in the Major Leagues.”32 The following week he used his space to attack ...
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Jun 18, 2021 · Baseball's box scores instantly turn human accomplishments into history. But for decades, Negro League players' statistics were kept segregated from other major leagues.
