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MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league

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  1. Silverphin

    Silverphin Well-Known Member

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    https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30531397/mlb-reclassifies-negro-leagues-major-league

    MLB said Wednesday that it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of their founding. The Negro Leagues consisted of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from those circuits between 1920 and 1948. The Negro Leagues began to dissolve one year after Jackie Robinson became MLB's first Black player with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
     
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