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These are the oldest players in MLB historyBaseball is America’s oldest and most storied professional sport. The lengthy history of the game, coupled with its non-contact nature, has made these players by far the oldest to appear in a game in the history of North American sports....

CC Sabathia, ex-MLBers to play in revived Negro League East-West All-Star GameThe National Baseball Hall of Fame is set to revive the Negro League’s East-West All-Star game with a legends exhibition in Cooperstown, New York next May. ...

Don’t let Glen Kuiper’s screw-up distract from great news regarding the Negro Leagues Baseball MuseumLost in the noise of Glen Kuiper’s slur of the tongue, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is on the path to an enormous overhaul. With interest and attendance up, the president of the Kansas City museum — Bob Kendrick — announced a plan last week for a new Negro Leagues Baseball Museum campus....

Sean Gibson says MLB hasn't gone far enough when it comes to the Negro Leagues

With opening day in Major League Baseball upon us, there’s no better time to remember baseball’s heroes of yesteryear. Such nostalgia shouldn’t only extend to past eras of MLB but also to those who paved the way in the Negro Leagues for players of color to make their way into the Majors. One of thos...

Silent No Longer: The Outspoken Jackie Robinson

The eyes of Abraham Lincoln gazed down from a portrait on the paneled walls inside the executive offices of the Brooklyn Dodgers Baseball Club as Branch Rickey fire-hosed a torrent of racial slurs at Jackie Robinson. The president and general manager of the Dodgers had little doubt that the young ba...

When Jackie opened the door, these men walked through

It took 2,559 days after Jackie Robinson’s debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers for Major League Baseball to have its 42nd Black player appear in a game. Those seven years and two days saw 11 of the league’s 16 franchises integrate. The Boston Red Sox were the last to do so with Pumpsie Green in July 1959...

MLB’s past is still evolving, and not just by rightly adding Negro League stats

Baseball-Reference is the gold standard for record keeping in a game whose numbers are its lifeblood. The site that Sean Forman built has supplanted decades of encyclopedias, carving out a niche on the Internet as the most authoritative source for statistics to connect baseball’s past to its present...

Negro League researcher Cam Perron talks about his new book, the Negro Leagues, and the times to come

In a profile over the summer, I asked Cam Perron what he’s up to next. At the time, the young Negro Leagues researcher, whose work of documenting players’ service time led to their receiving MLB pensions, was operating his memorabilia business and working on a book set to hit shelves in 2021....