MLB Elevates Negro Leagues to Major League Status
Major League Baseball announced yesterday that the league is correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history by officially elevating the Negro Leagues to Major League status. This according to a press release from Major League Baseball.
With this action Major League Baseball wants to ensure that future generations of baseball fans will remember the approximately 3,400 players of the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is quoted in the release as saying:
All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice. We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.
Dec 16, 2020
MLB announced today it is officially elevating the status of Negro Leagues to Major League , in a long overdue correction.
According to a tweet, from MLB:
MLB is correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history by officially elevating the Negro Leagues to “Major League” status.
According to the Commissioner of Baseball, Robert D. Manfred, Jr.: All of us who love baseball have long known that Negro Leagues produced many of our game s best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice.
We are now grateful to count the players of Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.
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Negro Leagues baseball veteran Jim Robinson and ESPN/ABC correspondent Ryan Smith attend an event celebrating 100th anniversary of the league in New York in February. (Donald Traill/AP Photo)
Major League Baseball has for years acknowledged the contributions and the legacy of the thousands of Black athletes who played in the Negro Leagues.
On Wednesday, the league went a step further, saying it was officially “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history” and recognizing those professionals as Major League-caliber players. The league said it will also include their statistics and records as part of MLB history.
MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
The league said it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history” by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:19 PM EST December 16, 2020
NEW YORK Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history.
The league said Wednesday it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history” by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. The Negro Leagues consisted of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from those circuits between 1920-48. The Negro Leagues began to dissolve one year after Jackie Robinson became MLB s first Black player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
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Major League Baseball has for years acknowledged the contributions and the legacy of the thousands of Black athletes that played in the Negro Leagues.
On Wednesday, the league went a step further, saying it was officially correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history and recognizing those professionals as Major League-caliber players. The league added it will also include their statistics and records as part of MLB history. 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, Commissioner Robert Manfred said in statement posted to social media.