Enlisting MLB in a crusade for Birmingham justice.
Artie Wilson, one of the greatest baseball players in the history of Alabama, isn’t in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and it feels like a major oversight. Why is it so important that Major League Baseball is coming to Birmingham, Alabama, to honor the Negro Leagues? One of the reasons is because forgotten players like Wilson deserve to be properly recognized for contributions to the history of the game.to help him reach Cooperstown.
But it’s not Artie’s fault that America was a segregated country during his playing days. Put Artie in the Hall.. The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants are playing at Rickwood Field on June 20. For baseball, it’s going to be the signature moment of the season. Outside of Talladega, it’s arguably the biggest professional sporting event in the state of Alabama since the 1948 Negro League World Series.
Let the record show that Ted Williams was not the last Major League Baseball player to hit over .400 in a season. Wilson hit .433 in 1948 for the Birmingham Black Barons.It’s a high crime of American sporting history that Arthur Lee Wilson of Springville, Alabama, isn’t in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.Stunningly, Wilson isn’t even in the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame.
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