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MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League' — Correcting A 'Longtime Oversight' Wednesday, December 16, 2020 Negro Leagues baseball veteran Jim Robinson and ESPN/ABC correspondent Ryan Smith attend an event celebrating 100th anniversary of the league in New York in February. Donald Traill / AP Major League Baseball has for years acknowledged the contributions and the legacy of the thousands of Black athletes who played in the Negro Leagues. On Wednesday, the league went a step further, saying it was officially "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" and reco...

Negro Leagues baseball veteran Jim Robinson, left, and ESPN/ABC correspondent Ryan Smith, seen in New York in February. Major League Baseball has for years acknowledged the contributions and the legacy of the thousands of Black athletes that played in the Negro Leagues. On Wednesday, the league went a step further, saying it was officially "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" and recognizing those professionals as Major League-caliber players - and will include their statistics and records as part of MLB history. "All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro L...

Print this article Major League Baseball officials announced on Wednesday the elevation of the United States Negro Leagues to "Major League" status, adding the statistical records from more than 3,400 players to its archive. MLB officials said the move was a "product of evaluation through this year," which led the league, through a series of conversations with the authors of the Seamheads Negro Leagues Database, to decide that inclusion of records and statistics from the Negro Leagues was "long overdue." The records added are from players who played in the Negro Leagues from 1920-48. "It i...