MLB reclassifies Negro Leagues as major league
The league said it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history” by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. Author: Associated Press Updated: 1:19 PM EST December 16, 2020
NEW YORK 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 it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game s history” by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding. The Negro Leagues consisted of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from those circuits between 1920-48. 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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Major League Baseball says that it will now include the records of Negro League players and teams in its official statistics.
Black players were barred from playing in MLB until Jackie Robinson broke the race barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.
Baseball’s commissioner Rob Manfred described the move as “correcting longtime oversight in the game’s history.”
MLB will now recognise the “statistics and records” of nearly 3,4000 players who took part in seven leagues between 1920 and 1948.
“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game s best players, innovations and triumph against a backdrop of injustice,” said Mr Manfred.