MLB can be out of touch, but the league making good on its commitment to integrate Negro League Baseball stats deserves praise and appreciation.
always will be separate. It was a product of Black athletes and executives creating a league apart largely because they were barred from MLB. NLB was the only route to professional baseball in America.
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president Bob Kendrick explains the years of work that went into today's historical statistics integration with MLB ⬇A committee of 16 men and women, including six-time All-Star and Vallejo native CC Sabathia, comprised the statistical review committee. After more than a century of marginalization, the gates are open.
The pioneer Toni Stone, already the subject of stage plays and multiple books, is elevated. The woman paid her dues in NLB before spending her post-career years in Oakland before dying in 1996, becomes the first of several females to claim official MLB statistics. The killing of Floyd in Minneapolis galvanized millions in America and beyond. It revived efforts to address all manner of inequality and human rights. In the wake of that, the phrase “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” was uttered in corporate hallways throughout the country.
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