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Message : Required fields Wrapped Streetcar Will Run Throughout 2021 Bringing Awareness and Education of the Milwaukee Bears and the Negro Leagues 101 National Celebration; Mayor Barrett Proclaims May 25, 2021 to be Negro Leagues Legacy Day in the City of Milwaukee MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Brewers and Associated Bank have partnered with The Hop to honor the Negro Leagues 101 National Celebration, to bring awareness and education of the storied history of the Negro Leagues and their impact, and to celebrate the Milwaukee Bears, the city's Negro National League team. The collaboration is in su...

share-square-636837 "If I should see Torriente walking up the other side of the street, I would say, 'There walks a ballclub.'" -- Indianapolis ABCs manager C.I. Taylor Few players in baseball history have received such universal admiration from their counterparts coinciding with such minimal mainstream recognition as Cristóbal Torriente. He was nicknamed the “Cuban Babe Ruth” (or, as some quipped back, Ruth was the “American Cristóbal Torriente”), partly for his legendary, almost-mythic outhomering of Ruth in a head-to-head series in Cuba, but mostly for his all-aro...