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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 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...

Negro Leagues recognized by MLB as major leagues… but what does that actually mean?The announcement by MLB on Wednesday that the 1920-1948 Negro Leagues would be recognized as major league was very welcome news....

Charley Pride, Negro Leagues veteran and country music trailblazer, dead of COVID complications

You know Charley Pride, the country singer. The three-time Grammy winner recorded over 40 No. 1 hit country songs and became the genre’s first Black superstar. But before his music career, Pride was a professional baseball player....

The Story of Hall of Famer Turkey Stearnes, the Ballpark he Made Home and the Family & Detroit Rock Star Trying to Preserve it

Vanessa Rose stands at the ready in center field. In a half-crouch with her glove-hand resting on one knee and her throwing-hand resting on the other, she stares in at home plate as the rock star Jack White digs his cleats into the batter’s box....

The Best of Their Generation: Pop Lloyd and Oscar Charleston

This is a story about two great baseball players: Pop Lloyd and Oscar Charleston. They played in the Negro Leagues 100 years ago. Most stories about players like this rely on stories of old ballplayers and writers who saw them. Some of these stories are true, some are exaggerated and some are totall...

Catching Up With the Kid Who Helped Get MLB to Right a Decades-long Wrong for Negro Leaguers

Cam Perron started flipping baseball cards in first grade....

<em>'Why is it that the white man took control of baseball and said that’s for them?'</em><em></em>

Ernest Fann lives in Birmingham, on a dead-end street down near Valley Creek. As the days go by, and he’s home during the coronavirus pandemic, he has something he wonders about....