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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. ...

Glen Kuiper said his excitement is why he 'rushed’ and said the N-word...riiiggghtttt [Update]Glen Kuiper didn’t misspeak less than three weeks ago during a pregame segment when detailing his trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. That hateful six-letter word doesn’t just slip out of your mouth unless you’ve used it dozens of times before and it’s part of your vernacular. ...

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

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...

Meet Martin Dihigo, The Best Baseball Player You've Never Heard of

“Dihigo was the best all-around baseball player I’ve ever seen.”— Buck Leonard...

Josh Gibson and the Long Gone Summers That Should Have Been

The following is adapted from the podcast script for Stick to Pods Episode 11, “Josh Gibson,” which originally aired on April 12, 2018...

The Greatest Slugger Never To Play In The Major Leagues

As David Ortiz adds to his legend this week—the version that omits any mention of PEDs, of course—let's take a moment to appreciate John Schulian's 2000 SI profile of Josh Gibson:...