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Major League Baseball today unveiled the uniforms that the Atlanta Braves and Cincinnati Reds will sport in their historic matchup at Bristol Motor Speedway on August 2 in the MLB Speedway Classic ...
Maybe the atmosphere and energy of Atlanta is what was needed for the 95th Annual MLB All Star Game to rejuvenate the Black community’s interest in baseball. Not only as fans, but as coaches, managers ...
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - 90 years have passed since the Bismarck Churchills won the first National Baseball Congress National tournament. “Really put Bismarck on the map,” said Negro Leagues Baseball ...
‘The League’ Review: The Negro Leagues Finally Get Their Due in Moving Baseball Documentary Director Sam Pollard pays tribute to one of our national pastime’s most overlooked chapters.
Pollard's new documentary, The League, tells the story of the Negro League and the way it revolutionized baseball. He describes the league's games as social events that spawned new businesses and ...
Sammy T. Hughes played in the Negro Leagues from 1930 to 1946. He was a star who was buried without pomp or a headstone.
This isn't saying that the Negro Leagues needs major league baseball, but I think this is major league baseball acknowledging like, no, this is something that should have happened a long time ago.
5. Lou Gehrig 179. Yes, that's Negro Leagues star Charleston (1920-41) behind only the Sultan of Swat and the Splendid Splinter. Fellow Negro Leaguers Turkey Stearnes (177) and Mule Suttles (172 ...
In his film "The League," Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball which Major League Baseball is trying to bring back." ...
Negro League baseball players Buck O'Neil, left, and Bud Fowler will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022. Alamy/National Baseball Library. CNN — ...
The story of Negro Leagues baseball has been told many times, even if it still seems unreal in this relatively more enlightened age. But two things drove famed documentary filmmaker Sam Pollard as ...