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Showing posts with label Negro Leagues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Negro Leagues. Show all posts
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Now Available: Satchel Paige - 2024 TOPPS MLB at Rickwood Negro League Collection Card

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This year, MLB celebrates Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the United States and former home of the Birmingham Black Ba...
Sunday, April 16, 2023

New Book Release: True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson by Kostya Kennedy

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True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's―and America's―most significant figur...
Saturday, February 05, 2022

Minor League Baseball adds to inclusion efforts with 'The Nine'

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Minor League Baseball has announced the launch of “The Nine,” a new, Black-community focused outreach platform specifically designed to ho...
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City Flooded by Vandals

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Officials at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri found their building flooded after vandals cut through water pi...
Saturday, May 13, 2017

Baltimore Orioles' Adam Jones donates $20K to Negro Leagues museum

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Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, the target of racial taunts during a recent game in Boston, has donated $20,000 to the Negro L...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Hall of Fame baseball player Monte Irvin dies at 96

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Hall of Famer Monte Irvin, a power-hitting outfielder who starred for the New York Giants in the 1950s in a career abbreviated by Majo...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Statement by the President and First Lady on the Passing of Ernie Banks

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President Obama and the First Lady released the following statement on the death of baseball legend Ernie Banks: Michelle and I...