Wednesday, 16 December 2020

MLB Corrects 'Longtime Oversight', Now Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League'

Negro Leagues baseball veteran Jim Robinson, left, and ESPN/ABC correspondent Ryan Smith, seen in New York in February.

"All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game's finest players, innovations and triumphs against the backdrop of injustice," said the MLB commissioner.

(Image credit: Donald Traill/AP)



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