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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 complicationsYou 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 itVanessa 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....

Meet Joe Black’s Legendary ‘All-Time All-Star Black Team,’ Packed With Hall of Famers and Guys who Should Be There

In 1973, the Chicago Defender, a groundbreaking Black newspaper, ran a baseball item based on an interview with a white man, former major league umpire Jocko Conlan....

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...