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The Negro League Stars That MLB Kept Out — And Is Finally Recognizing
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New Baseball Hall of Fame member was first pro Black player. Played in Galesburg.
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MLB's Considering Adding Negro Leagues to Official Major League History - The Ringer
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Preserving Negro League History Has Never Been Easier, or Harder, Depending on Who You Ask, History
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Your View: Our father wrote a groundbreaking history of Negro Leagues. He would applaud MLB's recognition of the leagues – The Morning Call
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MLB Elevates Negro Leagues to Major Leagues
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MLB - MLB is correcting a longtime oversight in the game's
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MLB can add Negro Leagues to official records but can never change what it did to Black players - ESPN
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Baseball Reference Adds Negro League Data In Record Books : NPR
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History of baseball in the United States - Wikipedia
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Negro Leagues stats and MLB history: Truth, mythology and the last .400 hitter - The Athletic
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MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
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A history of Negro League baseball: Cincinnati's unheralded players
For more than half a century, Black baseball players, barred from the Major Leagues by systemic racism, competed in leagues of their own. This book re-interprets the history of race in baseball from the ground up.
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Black Stats Matter: Integrating Negro League Numbers Into Major League Records [Book]
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On the 100th Anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a Look Back at What Was Lost - JSTOR Daily