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Remembering The Black Players Of Mexican Baseball

Some of the best players of the Negro League left their baseball cleats printed in Mexico’s history.

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Oct 09, 2024
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Major League Baseball announced last December that they were “correcting a longtime oversight in the game’s history” by reclassifying the Negro League as a major league, a move met with applause.

It also comes on the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues’ founding and is a positive move in the direction of racial justice. While Black baseball players we…

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