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Former Phillies slugger Ryan Howard makes pitch for Negro Leagues Baseball Museum expansion

Former Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard and San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt announced their plans Thursday to join the Negro Leagues’ “Pitch for the Future” in bringing greater awareness to the legacy of the Negro Leagues with a museum expansion

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Patrick Mahomes, Adidas collaborate with NLBM on shoe honoring Kansas City Monarchs

#Chiefs QB Patrick Mahomes and Adidas collaborated with the Negro League Baseball Museum to make a shoe honoring the Kansas City #Monarchs.

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MLB has integrated Negro Leagues stats. Is it too little, too late?

Josh Gibson, nicknamed the Black Babe Ruth, is belatedly recognized as the all-time hit king and a tribute game will be held in Alabama today – but only 5.7% of players are now Black Americans

The Guardian - US

Jackie Robinson is rebuilt in bronze in Colorado after theft of statue from Kansas park

Metalsmiths in Colorado are remaking Jackie Robinson in bronze after the theft of a beloved Kansas statue of the civil rights baseball icon set off a national outpouring of donations

The Independent UK

Vahe Gregorian: Some 75 years after Satchel Paige debut, salute to ‘Black Aces’ asks what might’ve been

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Could be that Satchel Paige was 42 years old when he made his first American League appearance 75 years ago July 9. Then again, he might have been 52 or some other age altogether after Cleveland owner Bill Veeck purchased his contract from the Kansas City…

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New Hampshire town recognized for historic role in racially integrating baseball in the 1940s

A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball

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Glen Kuiper fired as A’s broadcaster after on-air slur

Longtime play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper was fired Monday, 17 days after using a racial epithet on the air leading into an A’s broadcast on May 5 in Kansas City.

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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum looks to raise $25 million for new facility

Museum president Bob Kendrick said the “Pitch for the Future” campaign is designed to lead to a new 30,000-square foot facility that would be adjacent to the Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center in Kansas City, Missouri.

Chicago Sun-Times

Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

Tribune News Service

'MLB The Show 23' PS5 Review: The Year's Best Sports Game, Thanks to One Upgrade

'MLB The Show '23' has a slew of subtle improvements, but the big leap forward comes in the form of a game mode exploring the history of the Negro Leagues.

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'MLB The Show '23' Review: The Year's Best Sports Game Thanks to One New Upgrade

'MLB The Show '23' has a slew of subtle improvements, but the big leap forward comes in the form of a game mode exploring the history of the Negro Leagues.

Inverse

In historic move, MLB The Show 23 breaks video game barrier with Negro League players

Video gamers are now able to venture into a storyline mode involving eight Negro League legends through the game, which was released Tuesday.

Chicago Sun-Times

MLB The Show breaks barrier with Negro League players

MLB The Show is breaking a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters

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With addition of Negro Leagues greats, ‘MLB: The Show ‘23′ hopes to ‘educate, enlighten, and inspire.’ Here’s how the partnership happened.

CHICAGO — When the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was founded in 1990, it was located in a one-room office in the historic Lincoln Building in Kansas City, Mo., across the street from where it operates today. The original office, located on the third floor, consisted of a conference room table…

Sports Illustrated

Baker Addresses How No U.S.-Born Black Players Expected to Play in World Series

For the first time in over 70 years, there will be no U.S.-born Black players in the Fall Classic.

The Independent UK

No Black players expected in World Series, a 1st since 1950

No U.S.-born Black players are projected to be on World Series rosters when the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros meet this week

Los Angeles Times

Dodgers make it a day to remember with Negro Leagues museum visit and 12th consecutive win

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day brimming with an appreciation for the past eventually had the Dodgers cherishing the present and peering excitedly into a future that gets more promising with every game. Call it a win, win, win.

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The Independent UK

As MLB considers future game sites, check out these ideas

The second “Field of Dreams” game is Thursday night in the cornfields of eastern Iowa, near the site of the beloved 1989 movie

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Vahe Gregorian: Buck’s HOF call inspires NLBM campaign that could be catalyst for Bob Kendrick’s dream

Friday was another beautiful day at, and for, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. So much so that even by his gleaming standards NLBM president Bob Kendrick radiated a certain surplus glow still basking in Buck O’Neil’s long-awaited induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Vahe Gregorian: On Buck O’Neil’s HOF induction at last: ‘His spirit is going to fill up the valley’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Quite belatedly, Buck O’Neil on Sunday will be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

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Chiefs’ Justin Reid, Trent McDuffie visited Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for Juneteenth

A pair of new #Chiefs celebrated #Juneteenth by taking a trip to @NLBMuseumKC with over a dozen football players from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy.

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Vahe Gregorian: On plight of Kansas City's Monarch Plaza and how the Negro Leagues Museum is spearheading its revival

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Standing at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn today, you overlook a site where the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth, played (exhibitions in 1927 and 1931) and the Sultan of Sod, George Toma, made his name.

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Grays legend Vic Harris might be Pittsburgh's most under-appreciated Negro Leagues star

As president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., Bob Kendrick is plenty familiar with the players who starred for the Grays and Crawfords and made Pittsburgh an integral part of Black baseball, names like Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell or Buck Leonard…

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Vahe Gregorian: Why a bullet-riddled Jackie Robinson marker is vital to Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The first words of Jackie Robinson's biography, "I Never Had It Made," deftly frame the circumstances of his birth in Cairo, Ga.

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