/tags/negro-leagues Negro Leagues en-US Copyright Wed, 29 May 2024 16:00:18 GMT /news-from-npr/2024-05-29/the-negro-leagues-are-officially-part-of-mlb-history-with-the-records-to-prove-it The MLB incorporated the statistics of some 2,300 Black athletes who played in the segregated Negro Leagues between 1920 and 1948, making the late Josh Gibson its new all-time batting leader. Wed, 29 May 2024 16:00:18 GMT /news-from-npr/2024-05-29/the-negro-leagues-are-officially-part-of-mlb-history-with-the-records-to-prove-it Rachel Treisman /specials/2020-07-09/baseball-a-little-known-chapter Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 8 p.m.Negro League Baseball was organized in February 1920 in Kansas City and included teams mostly in the Midwest like the… Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:28:34 GMT /specials/2020-07-09/baseball-a-little-known-chapter /local-news/2020-02-25/the-past-isnt-always-positive-new-reds-exhibit-revisits-segregation-in-baseball A traveling exhibit on baseball's Negro Leagues is now open at the Reds Hall of Fame. Executive Director Rick Walls says because there aren't many… Tue, 25 Feb 2020 10:57:00 GMT /local-news/2020-02-25/the-past-isnt-always-positive-new-reds-exhibit-revisits-segregation-in-baseball Bill Rinehart /arts/2014-02-21/shades-of-greatness-art-inspired-by-negro-leagues-baseball A brief announcement about the exhibit Shades of Greatness: Art Inspired by Negro Leagues Baseball currently on display at Dayton’s Sinclair Community… Fri, 21 Feb 2014 05:00:05 GMT /arts/2014-02-21/shades-of-greatness-art-inspired-by-negro-leagues-baseball /history/2014-02-19/negro-leagues-baseball-exhibit In the first half of the 1900s racism and Jim Crow laws kept African-American baseball players from being on the same teams as white players. So in 1920… Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:30:00 GMT /history/2014-02-19/negro-leagues-baseball-exhibit /arts/2014-02-04/shades-of-greatness-art-inspired-by-negro-leagues-baseball The Negro League Baseball Museum has organized a traveling exhibition entitled, “Shades of Greatness: Art Inspired by Negro Leagues Baseball.” The… Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:40:07 GMT /arts/2014-02-04/shades-of-greatness-art-inspired-by-negro-leagues-baseball /wvxu/2013-06-18/negro-league-star-thomas-turner-passes-away Funeral services are this weekend for Thomas "High Pocket" Turner of Georgetown, Ohio, a star of Negro League baseball in the 1940's. Turner died Monday… Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:53:25 GMT /wvxu/2013-06-18/negro-league-star-thomas-turner-passes-away /entertainment/2013-06-18/baseball-a-little-known-chapter Update February 10, 2014: The Negro League Baseball Museum has organized a traveling exhibition entitled, “Shades of Greatness: Art Inspired by Negro… Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:38:23 GMT /entertainment/2013-06-18/baseball-a-little-known-chapter