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Remembering the Capital Region s Negro League baseball players Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league Joyce Bassett FacebookTwitterEmail In December, Major League Baseball 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 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 were made up 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. ....