MLB icon Willie Mays will be honored with a Negro League tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, during the 2024 season, reports ESPN. Mays, an Alabama native, launched his professional career with the Birmingham Black Barons in 1948….
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A Look At The Negro League 100 Years Later
During the half century that baseball was divided by a color line, black America created a sporting world of its own. Black teams played on city sandlots and country fields, with the best barnstorming their way across the country and…
Read MoreCurator Uncovers Black Baseball Team That Dominated Before Integration of Sport
Louisvilleās Slugger Museum & Factory is a one-stop shop for all things baseball, so curators were thrilled when they became the new owners of what they thought were snapshots of one Negro Leagues baseball team, the Louisville White Sox. Little…
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