Topic - Negro League Baseball

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Oscar Charleston, a longtime player and manager in baseball's black leagues, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on February 10, 1976. This is an undated photo.(AP Photo)

LOVERRO: Negro League slugger Oscar Charleston punched his way into the record book

By Thom Loverro

This 1942 photo provided by the Carnegie Museum of Art shows Homestead Grays baseball catcher Josh Gibson crouched on Forbes Field in Pittsburgh. Gibson is featured in an opera about his life called "The Summer King." It has its world premiere April 29, 2017 in Pittsburgh. (Charles "Teenie" Harris/Carnegie Museum of Art via AP)

LOVERRO: Negro Leagues’ Leonard, Gibson delivered titles to District as the Grays’ dynamic duo

By Thom Loverro

Baseball catcher Josh Gibson in an undated photo. Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's .367, when records of the Negro Leagues for more than 2,300 players were incorporated after a three-year research project. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

LOVERRO: Gibson takes his rightful place among the all-time greats

By Thom Loverro

This image released by Sony Interactive Entertainment shows a digital rendering of Cuban baseball player Martín Dihigo from the game MLB The Show 23. The franchise has inserted some of the greatest Negro League players into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. (Sony Interactive Entertainment via AP)

MLB The Show breaks barrier with Negro League players

By Jonathan Landrum Jr. - Associated Press

In this Aug. 2, 1942, file photo, Kansas City Monarchs pitcher Leroy Satchel Paige warms up at New York's Yankee Stadium before a Negro League game between the Monarchs and the New York Cuban Stars. Major League Baseball has 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 Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File) **FILE**

MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league

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Negro League baseball memorial planned for Pittsburgh

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2005 file photo, bronze statues of Negro League greats including pitcher Satchel Paige, front, play their positions on the Field of Legends, which is the centerpiece of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. Major League Baseball is scheduled to play its annual All-Star game Tuesday, July 10, 2012, the museum will likely have experienced a significant windfall, financially and in terms of awareness, possibly ensuring its future for years to come. Museum officials expect to make upwards of $500,000 over the weekend. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Satchel Paige and the dictator: Baseball in the Caribbean

By Thom Loverro

Group wants to restore, improve former Negro League ballpark

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James "Cool Papa" Bell poses with a huge bat after being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Feb. 14, 1974. Bell was unanimously voted into the hall by a seven man committee. (AP Photo/HMB)

LOVERRO: Washington played pivotal role in embracing, shaping Negro Leagues

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

Group portrait of players from the Kansas City Monarchs and the Hilldale Negro League baseball teams in front of grandstands filled with spectators before the opening game of the inaugural "Colored World Series" in 1924. (Photo by J.E. Miller via Library of Congress)

LOVERRO: Negro League World Series had Kansas City in baseball spotlight 90 years ago

By Thom Loverro - The Washington Times

In this photo made on Monday, March 17, 2014, Louise Lippincott, the Curator of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Museum of Art, picks up a framed photograph made by Charles &quot;Teenie&quot; Harris at the museum in Pittsburgh. Harris made the image of New York Cubans' third baseman Horacio Martinez jumping over the base at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh in 1941.The museum is hosting an exhibit of photographs by Harris that opened on March 22 and runs through Sept. 22, 2014. It features a collection of Harris' work highlighting the golden years of Negro League baseball. The show features images of greats such as Jackie Robinson, Josh Gibson and documents the desegregation of local sandlot teams. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pittsburgh exhibit features Negro League pictures

By KEVIN BEGOS - Associated Press

CITIZEN JOURNALISM: Negro League player celebrated

BOOKS: Attaining racial equality in baseball

Tribute to Negro Leagues enhanced by touch of gray

For Gibson, a belated tribute