MLB, MLBPA announce $2 million grant to Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to help preserve vital baseball history
"The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, as an institution, serves as a beacon of education and enlightenment."
"The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, as an institution, serves as a beacon of education and enlightenment."
"Major League Baseball prioritized accuracy and an honest telling of history over the feelings of delicate snowflakes and pandering politicians."
Gibson will now be recognized as the MLB single-season leader in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS.
"One of the opportunities that MLB The Show provides for our fans is an ability to kind of bring history forward."
Hinchcliffe Stadium in Paterson, New Jersey could be the site of an MLB game if Harold Reynolds has it his way.
The last couple of years have seen an incredible surge of interest in the Negro Leagues and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and a front-page USA Today front-page story on the museum and CEO Bob Kendrick adds to that.
The series will be based on Ronald Spivey's book, If You Were Only White.
"I think that’s a good thing. It recognizes guys who played way back. I’m talking a lot of good ballplayers. These are just numbers now. There’s more to it. They were never part of the league."
"All I’m asking for is fairness, an open mind and an open heart, to accept what is obvious, that black ballplayers were equal. Not because of their skin, but because of their talent. And we can prove that quantitatively."