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☆ MLB is aiming for a more national strategy, commissioner says
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Jake Piazza | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

As part of its changing mentality, the MLB has its sights set on becoming a more national sport, according to Manfred. "We need a more national strategy," Manfred told CNBC's Scott Wapner. Because of the amount of content, I think there will be some local component but I think the strategy needs to be more national and our reach needs to be more national." But Sabathia said the league needs to do a better job of creating and marketing star starting pitchers specifically. It's star pitchers, it's starting pitchers."

Persons: Aaron Judge, Rob Manfred, Manfred, Albert Pujols, Elly De La Cruz, CNBC's Scott Wapner, Sabathia, Aaron, Juan, Soto, It's Organizations: New York Yankees, Texas Rangers, Globe, Major League Baseball, MLB, CNBC, Sabathia, Cincinnati Reds, Diamond Sports, ESPN, Negro Leagues Locations: Arlington , Texas

☆ MLB will host its first game at a NASCAR track, aiming to break attendance record
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Juliette Arcodia | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Baseball fans, start your engines. Major League Baseball announced Friday that NASCAR's iconic Bristol Motor Speedway will host a regular-season MLB game for the first time next year. It will also be the first in-season MLB game to be held in Tennessee. The game next August is likely to break the single-game attendance record for a Major League Baseball game. This announcement comes as Major League Baseball makes a renewed to expand the game to new venues and fans across the United States and globally.

Persons: Rob Manfred, Hall, Hall of Famer Willie Mays Organizations: Baseball, Major League Baseball, Bristol Motor, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds, MLB, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees, Rickwood, Negro Leagues, Hall of Famer Locations: Tennessee, America, United States, Fort Bragg , North Carolina, Dyersville , Iowa, Birmingham , Alabama, Tokyo, Mexico City, Paris, San Juan , Puerto Rico

The League 42 youth baseball league plans to unveil a replacement statue of Robinson crafted from the original mold Monday at a park in Wichita, Kansas. The city was shocked when the statue was cut from its base in January, leaving only the statue’s feet behind. He was sentenced to 18 months and ordered to pay $41,500 restitution for stealing the statue. The bronze cleats that were left behind when the original statue was stolen are now on display at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. The cleat remains of the bronze Jackie Robinson statue in Wichita, Kan., Jan. 25, 2024.

Persons: Jackie Robinson, Ricky Alderete, Robinson, Kan, Mel Gregory, Alderete, “, ”, I’m, Joe Torre, Cy Young, Travis Heying Organizations: League, Brooklyn Dodgers, Firefighters, Major League Baseball, Former New York Yankees, Sabathia, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Wichita Eagle, Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues Locations: Kan, Kansas, Wichita , Kansas, Wichita, Kansas City , Missouri

☆ Willie Mays: Chants of ‘Willie! Willie!’ stretched to the heavens at MLB game honoring Negro Leagues and late legend
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Willie Mays' son, Michael Mays, addresses the crowd aside baseball greats Ken Griffey Jr., left, and Barry Bonds, right. Approximately 60 Negro League players were in attendance – marking the largest official gathering of the league’s players in nearly 30 years, according to the MLB. A line of Negro League luminaries processed onto Rickwood Field before the game as “When the Saints Go Marching In” swelled through the stadium. Greason, who served as a mentor to teenaged Mays, told Fox Sports reporter Ken Rosenthal that Negro League players took to the field despite racism and segregation. “The overwhelming consensus is that Willie Mays is the greatest all-around player who has ever played,” veteran sportscaster Bob Costas told CNN.

Persons: Willie Mays, Mays, “, Willie, ”, of Famer Reggie Jackson, wouldn’t, Michael Mays, I’ve, he’s, Ken Griffey Jr, Barry Bonds, Vasha Hunt, Jon Batiste, Bill Greason, Eugene Scruggs, Pedro Sierra, Henry Collins, Lively, Brittney Spencer, Willie Jones, C.S, Armstrong, “ Todays, Masyn Winn, Ken Rosenthal, –, Babe Ruth, Bob Costas, San Francisco Mayor London Breed, Breed, CNN’s Ray Sanchez, Wayne Sterling, Kevin Dotson Organizations: CNN, Major League Baseball, Birmingham Black Barons, Negro Leagues, MLB, San Francisco Giants, St, Louis Cardinals, of Famer, Fox, Negro League, Saints, Batiste, Birmingham Barons, St Louis Cardinals, Cardinals, Giants, Neagro League, ” Cardinals, Fox Sports, Major League, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees, New York Giants, New York Mets, The Giants, San Francisco Mayor Locations: Birmingham, America, “ Birmingham, New York, San Francisco, Birmingham , Alabama, Rickwood

☆ Reggie Jackson says racism he experienced playing in Birmingham made his return for Negro Leagues tribute ‘not easy’
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Dalia Faheid | Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson said it was difficult to return to Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, for the Negro Leagues tribute game Thursday because of the onslaught of racism he experienced when he played there decades ago. The team played at Rickwood Field. Mays played for the Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro League baseball team that called Rickwood Field home until their last season in 1963. The game between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals both paid tribute to the Negro Leagues and honored Mays’s legacy. Approximately 60 Negro League players were in attendance – marking the largest official gathering of the league’s players in nearly 30 years, according to the MLB.

Persons: CNN — Baseball Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, Jackson, ” Jackson, “, ”, ’, ’ ”, Los Angeles Angels – Jackson, Mr, of Famer Willie Mays, Mays Organizations: CNN — Baseball Hall of Famer, Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Southern League, Rickwood, Fox, Yankees, CNN, of Fame, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, American League, MLB, of Famer, Birmingham Black Barons, Negro League baseball, San Francisco Giants, St, Louis Cardinals, Negro League, “ Locations: Birmingham , Alabama, New York

☆ Reggie Jackson, on live TV from Rickwood Field, shares stark stories of racism
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( C. Trent Rosecrans | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +9 min

Reggie Jackson played in Birmingham when he was in the minor leagues back in 1967. In his return to Rickwood Field, he shared his experience with racism and discrimination. Jackson played there just four years after four girls were killed in a bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church. The Giants wore the uniform of the San Francisco Sea Lions, a Negro Leagues team that folded after its only season in 1946. Giants manager Bob Melvin played at Rickwood Field in parts of three seasons in the early 1980s as a minor-leaguer.

Persons: of Famer Reggie Jackson, Jim Crow, Jackson teared, “, ”, Jackson, ’, Charlie Finley’s, ’ Finley, ‘ We’re, we’re, Willie Mays, Reggie Jackson, ackson,, ollie, ou’re, haron, ove, ou,, hite, ike, ethel B, artin, uther, J, eague, eason, elvin, layed, aid., harley, ride,, riffey J r., ure, ike W, ilgore J r. Organizations: of Famer, Hollywood, Major League, Negro Leagues, Birmingham Black Barons, ust Locations: Birmingham, osh

☆ Willie Mays: My father taught me everything I needed to know about the most complete ballplayer ever
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —When people ask me how good of a player Willie Mays was, I give them a perhaps odd answer. You see, my Father watched Mays play when he came up as a rookie for the New York Giants in 1951. That short splice of film is our version of getting to see Mays play. Mays is a big reason why my Father was one of the few people who wore a New York Giants baseball cap throughout his later years. It’s a connection I try to carry on to this day whether it’s by wearing a New York Giants baseball hat on television or by answering “the New York Giants” when asked what baseball team I root for.

Persons: Willie Mays, Mays, –, ”, Harry Enten, CNN Mays, ” –, Vic Wertz, Harry Hall, Neil Paine, Long, New York – Organizations: CNN, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Mets, of Fame, New York Giants, Giants, NL, Brooklyn Dodgers, National League, Cleveland Indians, AP, Chicago Cubs, Baseball, Major League, Negro League, MLB, Negro Leagues, Birmingham Black Barons Locations: Cleveland, New York, West Coast, Chicago, Mays, Mississippi, Bronx

☆ Major League Baseball Came to Birmingham. Then Willie Mays Died.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Tim Arango | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When Willie Mays was perfecting his craft on the sandlots around Birmingham as a teenager in the 1940s, there was hardly anything bigger among the Black community than baseball. Overflowing crowds of Black fans packed Rickwood Field, the local ballpark, when the Birmingham Black Barons played, and on Sundays church would let out early so worshipers could watch baseball. “I don’t think they know anything about Black baseball as such,” said Charles Willis, 92, a high school teammate of Mays who played one season for the Black Barons, referring to Black children in Birmingham today. “Because nowadays, Black kids don’t play baseball.”Major League Baseball went to Rickwood this week as a tribute to the history of the Negro leagues, a celebration that will now encompass a memorial service for Mays, who died on Tuesday at 93. But it is also about looking ahead, wrestling with how to attract young African American athletes to play baseball at a time when African American representation in the sport has diminished.

Persons: Willie Mays, ”, Charles Willis, Mays Organizations: Birmingham Black Barons, Black, ” Major League Baseball, Negro, San Francisco Giants, Louis Cardinals Locations: Birmingham

☆ Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants legend, dead at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewWillie Mays, the Hall of Famer with a career that spanned 22 seasons, has died at age 93, the San Francisco Giants announced in a post on X on Tuesday. At the time of his death, May had been the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1951, he joined the New York Giants. AdvertisementHe retired in 1973 with 24 All-Star awards and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. Advertisement"My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones," Michael Mays told the Chronicle on Tuesday.

Persons: —, Willie Mays, Greg Johnson, Mays, Margherite Wendell Chapman, Michael, Mae Louise Allen, Michael Mays Organizations: Service, of Famer, San Francisco Giants, Giants, Business, Baseball Hall of Fame, Birmingham Black Barons, Negro American League, MLB, New York Giants, of Fame, CBS, National League, New York Mets, The Giants, Mets, San Francisco, Negro Leagues, St, Louis Cardinals Locations: America, New York City, Birmingham , Alabama

☆ Willie Mays, Birmingham and Rickwood Field: Baseball Honors a Legend in His Hometown
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Tim Arango | Brandon Holland | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the late innings of a minor league game on Tuesday night at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., fans throughout the grandstand, suddenly and almost in unison, began staring at the news on their phones: The great Willie Mays had died, at 93, in California. An inning later, a tribute video played on the scoreboard overlooking the outfield where Mays played his first professional game as a teenage phenom for the Birmingham Black Barons, and the loudspeaker blared “Say Hey (the Willie Mays Song),” recorded in 1954 by the R&B group the Treniers. “I was shocked,” said Randy Ferguson, 70, a member of the Friends of Rickwood, the nonprofit organization that oversees the ancient ballpark. I can’t think of any place to be than here.”At 114 years old, Rickwood Field is the nation’s oldest professional ballpark, the first place Mays played pro ball and the last ballpark still standing that he called home. To honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues, Major League Baseball scheduled a game in Mays’s hometown between the San Francisco Giants, Mays’s old team, and the St. Louis Cardinals, that will be played on Thursday.

Persons: Willie Mays, Mays, ”, “, Randy Ferguson Organizations: Birmingham Black Barons, Rickwood, Fame, Negro Leagues, Major League Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Louis Cardinals Locations: Birmingham, Ala, California, Cooperstown, Mays’s

☆ Willie Mays, supreme baseball talent among the best to ever play, dies at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( David K. Li | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +11 min

San Francisco Giants great Willie Mays waves his hat as he rides around the track of Oracle Park, Friday, May 7, 2021, in San Francisco,. Focus On Sport | Getty ImagesA 1981 song and ode to America's pastime by Terry Cashman was appropriately titled "Talkin' Baseball: Willie, Mickey & The Duke." "I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays," all-time pitching great Sandy Koufax once said. Willie Mays Hays here: Play like Mays and I run like (Olympic gold medal sprinter Bob) Hayes. Outfielder Willie Mays #24 of the San Francisco Giants rounds second base during a circa early 1970's Major League Baseball game.

Persons: Willie Mays, Santiago Mejia, Barack Obama, of Famer Willie Mays, Chip Somodevilla, Mays, Bobby Thomson, Thomson, Scot, Bobby, — Mays, Mickey Mantle, Duke Snider, Terry Cashman, Willie, Mickey, Willie Howard Mays, steelworker William Howard, Anna Mays, Eddie Montague, Montague, Leo Durocher, Barry Bonds, —, Babe Ruth, Bonds, Sandy Koufax, Ruth, Arnold Palmer, Deron Johnson, Reggie Jackson —, Hall, Hall of famer Willie Mays, Jamie Squire, Yogi Berra, James Hirsch, Joan Payson, Payson, Payson wouldn't, Mantle, Bowie Kuhn, Peter Ueberroth, Ueberroth, Mantle's banishments, Kuhn, Charles Schultz, Charlie Brown, John Fogerty's, Ty Cobb, Joe DiMaggio, Wesley Snipes, Willie Mays Hayes, Willie Mays Hays, Bob, Hayes, Sisko, Donna Reed Organizations: San Francisco Giants, Oracle, San Francisco Chronicle, Hearst Newspapers, Getty, Baseball, of Famer, National, Giants, Brooklyn Dodgers, National League, New, Armed Forces Radio, Dodgers, Yankees, New York, York City, Apple, New York City, Hall of Fame, New York Mets, Shea, Los Angeles Dodgers, Birmingham Black Barons, Negro League, Barons, Mets, Oakland A's, Hall of famer, Kansas City Royals, Oakland, Thomson, New York Giants, GQ, MLB, Hotel, Claridge, Olympics, Los Angeles Times, Houston Astros, Bettmann, Major League Baseball Locations: San Francisco, Washington ,, New York, U.S, Korea, New, Flushing , New York, Westfield , Alabama, Mays ', York, America, Flushing , Queens, Atlantic City, Southern California, Northern California

☆ Willie Mays: One of baseball’s most electrifying and complete players has died at 93
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Wayne Sterling | Kevin Dotson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +17 min

AP From left: Monte Irvin, Willie Mays, and Hank Thompson hold bats on their shoulders in Yankee Stadium in 1951. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Mays, then a physical training instructor at Fort Eustis, Virginia, leads soldiers through a calisthenics session on February 19, 1953. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Mays plays stick ball with kids in New York's Harlem neighborhood in 1954. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Mays makes a leaping, one-handed catch off the Los Angeles Dodgers' Duke Snider on August 15, 1954. JR/AP Mays, then of the San Francisco Giants, plays catch with 14-month-old Herbert Henderson, at the home of Henderson's parents, in San Francisco, California on November 14, 1957.

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☆ Why the Negro League stats belong in the MLB record books
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-30 | by ( Harry Enten | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Fortunately, we got to see other NLB players join an integrated MLB a short time into their careers. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesFormer NLB players who joined the integrated MLB got on base more frequently (.361) than the average (.324). Hulton Archive/Getty Images Robinson was a formidable athlete in college, lettering in four sports at UCLA. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Robinson poses in the dugout with Dodgers teammates as he makes his historic debut on April 15, 1947. Rogers Photo Archive/Getty Images Robinson leaps into the air to try to turn a double play in 1952.

Persons: “, Major League Baseball’s, Neil Paine, –, Todd Peterson, White, Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, Mark Rucker, of Famer Dizzy Dean, ”, Dean, Paige, Willie Mays, Mays, Henry “ Hank ” Aaron, Aaron didn’t, Wes Westrum's, It’s, Don Newcombe, Jackie Robinson, Robinson, Rachel Isum, Johnny, Jorgensen, Harold, Pee Wee, Reese, Eddie Stanky, Rickey, Rogers, Richard Nixon, Paul Schutzer, Edd Roush, Bob Feller, Bill McKechnie, Cliff Welch, Ed Sullivan, Rachel, — Jackie Jr, David, Sharon —, Robert Riger, Jackie Robinson's, Larry Doby –, Hall, Hall of Famer –, Josh Gibson, Gibson’s, Gibson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Ruth, We’ll, Larry Doby, Stanley Weston, Doby, Cobb, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Walter Johnson, they’ll Organizations: CNN, Negro League Baseball, Major League, MLB, Negro League, Wrigley Field, White MLB, of Famer, White, Birmingham Black Barons, Indianapolis, National Leagues, New York Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Polo, Bettmann, Getty, National League, Brooklyn Dodgers, Hulton, UCLA, US Army, Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues, Sporting, Montreal Royals, Dodgers, New York Yankees, GOP, Republican, Hall of Fame, CBS, Freedom, American League, Hall of Famer, Baseball, Cleveland Indians, NL, AL Locations: Chicago, , New York, Cairo , Georgia, Pasadena , California, Los Angeles, New York, Stamford , Connecticut, Williamston , North Carolina, Bettmann, Anaheim , California

☆ As MLB changes its records, Josh Gibson, not Ty Cobb, is all-time batting leader
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-28 | by ( Tyler Kepner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +10 min

And as of Wednesday, Josh Gibson will replace Cobb as the leading hitter in the official records of the game. Thorn estimated that about 75 percent of all Negro Leagues box scores have been documented, and that MLB would update the records as more are uncovered. To some extent, Negro League numbers will always be a work in progress. Barnstorming games, essential as a financial lifeline to Negro League teams, are not included in the statistics. The scheduled games range from 26 (Negro American League, 1942) to 91 (Negro National League I, 1927).

Persons: Abner Doubleday, Tyrus Raymond Cobb, Doubleday, Josh Gibson, Cobb, ”, Larry Lester, “, Ty Cobb, Oscar Charleston, Rogers, Jud Wilson, Ed Delahanty, Buck Leonard, Ted Williams, John Thorn, Thorn, ” Lester, I’ve, Gibson, Chino Smith’s, Hugh Duffy’s, Chino Smith, Hugh Duffy, Charlie Blackwell, Ross Barnes, Willie Keeler, Rogers Hornsby, Tetelo Vargas, Vargas, — Lyman Bostock Sr, Bostock, Ted Williams ’, Sean Forman, Ty, Lester, Gary Ashwill, Kevin Johnson, Seamheads, ” Thorn, Elias, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Oscar, Barry Bonds, Jimmie Foxx, Ed Walsh, Addie Joss, Mordecai Brown, John Ward, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell, Walter Johnson, Dave Brown, Tommy Bond, White, Willie Mays, Mays, Bullet Rogan, Turkey Stearnes, ’ ” Lester, Simon Bruty Organizations: Major, Baseball, Negro Leagues, MLB, “, Negro League, Negro, Rogers Hornsby, Turkey Stearnes, Louis Cardinals, San Francisco Giants, Kansas City Monarchs, American, National Leagues, Negro American League, Negro National League I, Boston, New York Cubans, Twins, Red Sox, Sports, Birmingham Black Barons, Graphics, Retrosheet, Oscar Charleston, Barry, Major League Baseball, Birmingham, Giants, Mets Locations: Turkey, Birmingham, Ala, Chicago, Moline, Washington ,

As Dwight progressed through the Air Force, he was handpicked by President John F. Kennedy’s White House to join Chuck Yeager’s test pilot program at Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert. That fabled astronaut breeding ground, site of “The Right Stuff,” might have turned Dwight into one of the most famous Americans and the first Black man in space. Dwight astronaut future took a more drastic turn when Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. “Everybody was wondering, ‘What’s going to happen with Dwight?’" says Dwight. To the Black astronauts who followed in his footsteps, Dwight braved their path.

Persons: Ed Dwight, he’d, ’ ” Dwight, Dwight, ”, “, ‘, John F, Chuck Yeager’s, Edwards, Kennedy, —, ” Dwight, Zoom, Guion, Bernard Harris, ” Harris, Ed, who’s, Lisa Cortés, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, that’s, Eddie Dwight, Satchel Paige’s, Edward R, Murrow, James Webb, “ Yeager, Jimmy Stewart, Yaeger, ’ ” Yeager, Yeager, Tom Wolfe’s “, Bobby, Wolfe, ‘ What’s, ’, ” Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, Patterson, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Barack Obama, it’s, Hurtado de Mendoza, isn’t, He’s, Chuck, Jake Coyle Organizations: Air Force, Edwards Air Force Base, NASA, Geographic, Disney, Century America, Negro Leagues, Kansas City Monarchs, Soviet Union, Sputnik, Mercury, U.S . Information Agency, Negro, Aerospace Research, House, Arizona State University, “ NASA, White, Congress, Civil Rights, Justice Department, Wright, IBM, Fine Arts, Sculpture, University of Denver, Orion Locations: Kansas, Korea, Hulu, Denver, Soviet, U.S, Edwards, Washington, Germany, Canada, Ohio

Then, Kelce saw Oropeza's painting entitled “:13 seconds,” which depicted the dramatic finish to the Chiefs' game against Buffalo in 2022. “That right there,” Kelce told Oropeza, “looks familiar.”Oropeza's work has caught the attention of more than just Kelce in recent years. He's done commissions for Jarrod Dyson of the Kansas City Royals and the wife of former St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols. “We are incredibly proud of our 60-plus-year connection to the Kansas City region,” Chiefs president Mark Donovan said in a statement. Those are just some of the small businesses that have benefited from what has become a robust Chiefs industry.

Persons: — Anthony Oropeza, Travis Kelce, Kelce, Satchel Paige, ” Kelce, Oropeza, “, He's, Jarrod Dyson, Albert Pujols, Patrick Mahomes, ”, Mark Donovan, Go Taylor, Taylor Swift, Charlie Hustle, Dolce, Andy Reid, ” Dolce, Erin Brown, ” Brown, Jason Kelce, Reid, Andy Reidcicle, “ It's, ” Oropeza, Travis Organizations: of Fame Negro, Chiefs, Buffalo, AFC, Kansas City Royals, Louis Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Econsult Solutions, Arrowhead, ” Chiefs, Kansas, ” Dolce Bakery, Super, Kansas City, Ravens, Vegas, ”, Bills, Eagles, Miami Locations: Kan, Kansas City, Cleveland, Prairie Village , Kansas, Kansas, Las Vegas, Liberty , Missouri

Donations poured in Wednesday to replace a destroyed statue of Jackie Robinson on what would have been the 105th birthday of the first player to break Major League Baseball’s color barrier. Major League Baseball pledged support. “We have after school education, enrichment and tutoring.”One of the largest donations is a $10,000 pledge from an anonymous former Major League Baseball player who won a World Series. And, we make every effort to educate our kids about the role that Jackie Robinson played in life and civil rights, his life beyond sports. “We can’t imagine, being named League 42 without a Jackie Robinson statue in our park," he said.

Persons: Jackie Robinson, Robinson, Bob Lutz, Lutz, Leslie Rudd, We’re, ” Lutz, “, Joe Sullivan, ” Sullivan, John Parsons, ”, He’s Organizations: Major League Baseball, Wichita , Kansas . Police, McAdams, league, Brooklyn Dodgers, Fire, Little League, MLB, Leslie Rudd Learning Center, Wichita, Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues Locations: Wichita , Kansas

Fire crews found the burned remnants Tuesday of a prized bronze statue of Jackie Robinson that was stolen last week from a public park in Kansas, authorities said. The statue, which was cut at the figure's ankles, went missing Thursday morning. Surveillance video shows two people hauling the sculpture away in the dark, to a truck that was later found abandoned. He said the mold is still viable and anticipated that a replacement could be erected within a matter of months. “This now lets us know that we need a new statue,” he said of the destroyed remains.

Persons: Jackie Robinson, Andrew Ford, ”, Bob Lutz, “, it's, Joe Sullivan, ” Robinson, He’s, Lutz, John Parsons, “ I'm, McAdams, Brandon Johnson Organizations: Little League, ”, Robinson’s Dodgers, league, Wichita, Kansas City Monarchs, Negro Leagues, Brooklyn Dodgers Locations: Kansas, Wichita, Garvey, McAdams

Ken Griffey Jr. and Ozzie Smith have agreed to manage or coach at the May 25 Hall of Fame East-West Classic. The Negro Leagues East-West All-Star Game began at Chicago's Comiskey Park in September 1933, two months after MLB's first All-Star Game at the same ballpark, and was played annually through 1962. Major League Baseball has recognized seven Negro Leagues from 1920-48 as having big league status, but incorporating those numbers has not yet been completed. “As a kid growing up, I thought Negro League baseball was backyard, barnstorming baseball. “That was the first time I really, really, really thought about it, and I was like, damn, I really want to be in the Hall of Fame.

Persons: “, I'm, Ken Griffey Jr, Ozzie Smith, MLB's, Jerry, Scott Hairston, Sam, Ryan Howard, Prince Fielder, David Price, Justin Upton, Curtis Granderson, Dontrelle Willis, Adam Jones, Dexter Fowler, LaTroy Hawkins, Edwin Jackson, Buck O'Neil, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Monte Irvin, Cool Papa Bell, hasn’t, Dave Stewart, ” Sabathia, LeBron James, ”, Jackie Robinson, Josh Rawitch, “ It’s, it’s, Carter, Sabathia Organizations: —, Negro Leagues, of Fame's Doubleday, of Fame East, Black Baseball, Negro Leagues East, Chicago's, Cincinnati, Indianapolis Clowns, Negro American League, Major League Baseball, Negro League baseball, American, of Fame, Cooperstown Locations: Tenn, Cooperstown , New York

☆ Stream These 10 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in November
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jason Bailey | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

‘About Last Night’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here. ‘Arrival’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here. ‘Fences’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here. ‘Hook’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here. ‘Stuart Little’ (Nov. 30)Stream it here.

Persons: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, David Mamet, Joy Bryant, Michael Ealy, Regina Hall, Kevin Hart, Denis Villeneuve, Ted Chiang’s, Amy Adams, August Wilson —, Troy Maxson, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Viola Davis, Jovan Adepo, Troy, ‘, Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman, Captain Hook, Julia Roberts, Tinker Bell, “ Hook, Spielberg, Williams, ‘ Stuart Little ’, White’s, Jonathan Lipnicki, Jerry Maguire ”, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie —, David Alan Grier, Nathan Lane, Chazz Palminteri, Steve Zahn, Bruno Kirby, Jennifer Tilly, Michael J, Fox Organizations: Regina, Negro Locations: Chicago, Washington, Millennials

Political Cartoons View All 1171 ImagesHere is some of the history, process and cost when it comes to MLB expansion. In 1977, MLB went to 26 teams, adding the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays. For a reference point, the move to 30 teams started with the formation of an MLB expansion committee in March 1994. The Diamondbacks and Rays both paid $130 million to enter MLB in 1998 while the Marlins and Rockies paid $95 million in 1993. Back in 1977, the Blue Jays ($7 million) and Mariners ($6.5 million) paid even less.

Persons: —, Rob Manfred, he's, isn't, Jim Bouton's, Manfred, Ronald Blum, ___ Organizations: Tampa Bay Rays, MLB, Rays, Oakland Athletics, Las Vegas, Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Negro Leagues, League —, American League, Washington Senators, Minnesota Twins, Senators, Los Angeles Angels, National League, New York Mets, Houston Colt, Seattle Pilots, Kansas City Royals, San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, NL, The Pilots, Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays, Colorado Rockies, Florida Marlins, Charlotte, Expos, Vegas Golden Knights, NHL, NBA, Charlotte Bobcats, NFL, Houston Texans, Diamondbacks, Marlins, Rockies, Blue Jays, Mariners, AP Locations: St . Petersburg, Florida, Las, Washington, Milwaukee, — Orlando , Florida, Phoenix, St, Petersburg , Florida, Northern Virginia, Petersburg, Charlotte, North Carolina, Nashville , Tennessee, Portland , Oregon, Montreal, Nashville, Portland, Salt Lake City, Austin , Texas

☆ The Playwright Who Changed the Face of American Theater
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Patti Hartigan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Yoshimura had been told that he would succeed only if he wrote plays about Asian Americans, but Wilson assured him that was nonsense. Yoshimura intuited that his friend was “deeply wounded” and didn’t push the issue. At the preconference, they both told Wilson that the play needed cuts. (Helen Hayes had been in the audience that night, and she left after the first act, reportedly saying, “I think I’ve had enough theater for one night.”) Wilson took out a long monologue about bones walking on water, a poetic piece of writing. Eugene O’Neill wrote about the fog in his masterpiece, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” “How thick the fog is,” he wrote.

Persons: Yoshimura, Wilson, ” Wilson, Yoshimura intuited, “, ”, Bill Partlan, “ Ma Rainey, Edith Oliver, can’t, Helen Hayes, I’ve, Partlan, “ Joe Turner’s, Troy Maxson, Maxson, Cory, Troy, Gabriel, Peter, Gabriel lightens, Eugene O’Neill Organizations: Yorker, Negro Leagues, Leagues Locations: “, St

☆ In ‘The League,’ Black Baseball’s Field of Dreams
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Robert Daniels | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Sam Pollard’s documentary “The League” introduces audiences to the teams, stars and little-known figures who populated the Negro leagues by chronicling how Black professional baseball first sprouted. It covers the period from just before the majors instituted a gentlemen’s agreement banning African Americans from playing with white players, to the Negro leagues becoming one of America’s biggest Black-owned businesses, to its demise. In an audio interview, Pollard spoke about how he set about constructing his film, and the ways he connected the Negro leagues to the Civil Rights movement. Where did you find the archival Negro league interviews? Byron also interviewed, through his dad, former Negro league players on video.

Persons: Sam Pollard’s, Bob Motley, Pollard, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Byron Motley, Byron Organizations: Negro, Civil

☆ A Negro Leagues Star Is Still Sharing His Story
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-04 | by ( Louie Lazar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The older pastor, wearing a long purple robe, ascended the steps to the pulpit. “God has always had a plan and a purpose for each of our lives,” the Rev. In his dark, silent study down the hall at Bethel Baptist, on a shelf stuffed with old theological books, is a photograph of the 1948 pennant celebration of the Birmingham Black Barons of baseball’s Negro leagues. Greason, 98, is one of baseball’s “forgotten heroes,” according to the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Seventy-five years ago, he shut down the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro American League’s championship series and then earned the Black Barons’ only win in the final Negro World Series, which the Black Barons lost to the Homestead Grays.

Persons: William H, Greason, ’, Long, “, Barons ’ Organizations: Bethel Baptist Church, Bethel Baptist, Birmingham Black Barons, baseball’s Negro, Center for Negro League Baseball Research, Kansas City Monarchs, Negro American, Barons, Black Barons, Grays Locations: Birmingham, Ala, Bethel, baseball’s

☆ Baseball Returns to the ‘Hallowed Grounds’ of a Negro Leagues Stadium
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Gary Phillips | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

PATERSON, N.J. — When Bob Kendrick visited Hinchliffe Stadium in 2014, all he could do was hope. Kendrick, the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., had journeyed east for a ceremony that recognized Hinchliffe as a National Historic Landmark. The stadium is one of the last of the Negro leagues ballparks still standing, but it was almost impossible to tell at the time. So had local products like Monte Irvin and Larry Doby, who followed Jackie Robinson in the first wave of integrating the American and National Leagues on their own paths to Cooperstown. Two other teams, the New York Black Yankees and the New York Cubans, called the stadium home as well.

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