MLB task force recommends seven Negro Leagues for major league status
The task force is examining leagues excluded in 1969 when a special committee on baseball records identified just six official major leagues dating to 1876.
Associated Press
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NEW YORK Seven Negro Leagues have been recommended for major league status by a task force of the Society for American Baseball Research.
The announcement Thursday followed Major League Baseball’s decision on Dec. 16 that it was reclassifying the Negro Leagues to majors. They had been excluded in 1969 when a special committee on baseball records identified six official major leagues dating to 1876.
SABR recommended big league status for the Negro National League I (1920-31), Negro National League II, (1933-48), Negro American League (1937-48), Eastern Colored League, (1923-28), American Negro League (1929), East-West League 932) and Negro Southern League (1932).