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Negro Southern League Museum Celebrates Jackie Robinson Day Early


Former Negro Leaguer Ernest Fann, 77, poses with 8-year-old Romello Ivy at the kickoff of the Jackie Robinson Day celebration at the Negro Southern League Museum in Birmingham, where it s more like Jackie Robinson week. (Solomon Crenshaw Jr. / Alabama NewsCenter)
By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.
Alabama Newscenter
One day just wasn’t enough to celebrate the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball.
Saturday, officials at the Negro Southern League Museum began several days of celebrating the legacy of former MLB great Jackie Robinson with a drive-by Honk For History.
Patrons were invited to honk their car horns as they drove by the museum on 16 ....

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Former Birmingham Black Barons player grateful MLB recognizing Negro League stats


Former Birmingham Black Barons player grateful MLB recognizing Negro League stats
Negro League players now recognized as major leaguers
By Josh Gauntt | December 17, 2020 at 11:25 PM CST - Updated December 18 at 6:42 AM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - A former Negro League player is calling a recent decision by Major League Baseball an honor. Up until this week, MLB didn’t officially consider the Negro League as a major league.
William “Bill” Greason had a pretty mean curve ball and could strike you out in a heartbeat with his fastball.
“If I got two strikes on you, it was over,” Greason said.
Greason, now 96, reminiscing of the days when he played for the Birmingham Black Barons which is a part of the Negro League. Before that, he was a member of the Montford Point Marines , America’s first group of African Americans to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. He ended up on Iwo Jima. ....

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