The women of the Negro Leagues
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Recounting the history of the Negro Leagues is an incomplete exercise without also including the women who were part of the many stories. The Negro Leagues were the first place that a woman could own and run a baseball team and it was the first professional baseball league where a woman took the field alongside men. But as the Negro Leagues were the result of MLB’s exclusionary practice, so too did the Negro Leagues exclude and diminish the impact of the women who were a part of them.
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There s a handful of numbers throughout baseball history that are so important, so revered, so iconic that they require no additional explanation.
714 and
.406 or
42 is part of that club too. You immediately know what all of those mean.
For nearly 50 years,
660 has been one of those numbers, too. Willie Mays hit the 660th and final regular-season home run of his career on Aug. 17, 1973, at Shea Stadium as a member of the Mets off Cincinnati s Don Gullett. Sure, he hit one in the playoffs ( 71), and three more in All-Star Games ( 56, 60, and 65), and assuredly countless more in Spring Training and other exhibitions, but 660 is the number. It s on his Hall of Fame plaque. It s on some of his autographs. It s written on the wall at Oracle Park. When someone passes 660, it s a big deal. It s as associated with Mays as the 24 he wore on his back.
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Kansas City Monarchs pitching great Leroy Satchel Paige pratices at New York s Yankee Stadium August 2, 1942 for a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the NewYork Cuban Stars. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman)Matty Zimmerman / Associated Press 1942
For decades, baseball historians and fans have accepted it as gospel that Willie Mays collected 3,283 hits in his career, Bob Feller threw the only opening day no-hitter in baseball history and the top three batting averages of all-time belonged to Ty Cobb (.366), Rogers Hornsby (.359) and Shoeless Joe Jackson (.359). To suggest otherwise was to provoke a bar fight, or at the very least a peaceful consulting of Google.