MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
By Associated Press
Published December 17, 2020
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. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)
Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big-league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total.
Josh Gibson, the greatest of all Negro League sluggers, might just wind up with a major league record, too.
The statistics and records of greats like Gibson, Paige and roughly 3,400 other players are set to join Major League Baseball’s books after MLB announced Wednesday it is reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league.
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Lawyer: Family to release autopsy of Black man killed by cop
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Dec 15, 2020 at 8:26 pm EDT
LA MARQUE, Texas The attorney for the family of a young, Black man who was fatally shot last week by a police officer in a Houston suburb said Tuesday that the family is planning to release results of an independent autopsy in the death.
Autopsy results in the death of Joshua Feast, 22, will be released Wednesday, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference Tuesday in La Marque, Texas, about 40 miles (64 kilometres) southeast of Houston.
Crump continued his call for a thorough investigation of the killing and for police to release body camera footage from the shooting. The lawyer also said the officer who killed Feast should be fired.
Family calls for officer firing, bodycam release in Texas man s fatal police shooting By Erin Donaghue
December 15, 2020 / 6:51 PM / CBS News
The family of a Texas man shot dead by police last week is demanding the release of video and the firing of the officer who opened fire.
National civil rights attorney Ben Crump called for transparency in the case Tuesday alongside the family of the slain Black man, 22-year-old Joshua Feast. Investigators have said Feast had a gun, but Crump said Feast posed no threat and was shot in the back while fleeing. Our eye is focused on justice and justice starts with the firing of this officer and with releasing those videos, Crump said.
December 15, 2020 - 5:49 PM
LA MARQUE, Texas - The attorney for the family of a young, Black man who was fatally shot last week by a police officer in a Houston suburb said Tuesday that the family is planning to release results of an independent autopsy in the death.
Autopsy results in the killing of Joshua Feast, 22, will be released Wednesday, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said at a news conference Tuesday.
Crump continued his call for a thorough investigation of the killing and for police to release body camera footage from the shooting in La Marque, about 40 miles (64 kilometres) southeast of Houston. The lawyer also said at the news conference in Texas City that the officer who killed Feast should be fired.