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The oldest African-American business in Memphis was, for many years, the T.H. Hayes & Sons Funeral Home. It was owned and operated by the Hayes family, pictured here from left to right: Thomas Jr., Florence, Thomas Sr., and Taylor. Thomas Sr. opened the business in 1902 on Poplar Avenue but relocated it to South Lauderdale in 1918. Son Thomas Jr. also owned the Birmingham Black Barons, a Negro Baseball League team that once boasted Willie Mays as a player. The entire Hayes family rests at Elmwood Cemetery.

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Pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige became the first Negro League player to be recommended for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. February 9, 1971 Image: Leroy “Satchel” Paige, 1948. (Public Domain). On this day in history, February 9, 1971, pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige became the first Negro League player to be recommended for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. In…

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The League Sheds Spotlight on Complicated History of Great American Pastime

We all know the names Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron and Jackie Robinson. But, did you know they are all products of The League? #theleague #documentary

One of my fondest memories growing up in Missouri was looking forward to a program run by Anheuser Busch for young baseball fans.  If a student received  ‘Straight A’s,”  the reward was a season pass to the St. Louis Cardinals season. It was a great incentive to do well in school, but for a die hard baseball fan like myself it meant everything!  I got to see Mel Gray, Lou Brock, Ozzie Smith, Bob…

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Long, overdue good news: Negro League statistics will be integrated into MLB historical record!

Stats from the more than 2,300 players from seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 will be included in the MLB’s database — including legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, who will become the single-season record holder in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS. Previous record holders for those three categories were Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth.

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The New York Black Yankees, 1934.

The Black Yankees were a New York City team that started out in 1931 as the Harlem Stars. They were renamed a year later and joined the Negro National League in 1936. They disbanded in 1948, after the major (white) leagues began hiring black players.

Photo: James van der Zee via the Howard Greenberg Gallery

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Negro Leagues Legends @ Rickwood Field

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Willie Mays 💜💜💜 RIP 🙏🏼

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ERNIE BANKS, JACKIE ROBINSON, and WILLIE MAYS.

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Anthony Castrovince at MLB.com:

Major League Baseball’s embrace of the Negro Leagues is now recognized in the record book, resulting in new-look leaderboards fronted in several prominent places by Hall of Famer Josh Gibson and an overdue appreciation of many other Black stars.

Following the 2020 announcement that seven different Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 would be recognized as Major Leagues, MLB announced Wednesday that it has followed the recommendations of the independent Negro League Statistical Review Committee in absorbing the available Negro Leagues numbers into the official historical record. "We are proud that the official historical record now includes the players of the Negro Leagues," Commissioner Rob Manfred said. "This initiative is focused on ensuring that future generations of fans have access to the statistics and milestones of all those who made the Negro Leagues possible. Their accomplishments on the field will be a gateway to broader learning about this triumph in American history and the path that led to Jackie Robinson’s 1947 Dodger debut."

Gibson, the legendary catcher and power hitter who played for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is now MLB’s all-time leader in batting average, slugging percentage and OPS and holds the all-time single-season records in each of those categories. Gibson is one of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players -- including three living players who played in the 1920-1948 era in Bill Greason, Ron Teasley and Hall of Famer Willie Mays -- included in a newly integrated database at MLB.com that combines the Negro Leagues numbers with the existing data from the American League, National League and other Major Leagues from history. “The Negro Leagues were a product of segregated America, created to give opportunity where opportunity did not exist,” said Negro Leagues expert and historian Larry Lester. “As Bart Giamatti, former Commissioner of Baseball, once said, ‘We must never lose sight of our history, insofar as it is ugly, never to repeat it, and insofar as it is glorious, to cherish it.’”

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Why are the Negro Leagues being added to the historical record?

Essentially, to right a wrong. It certainly was not the fault of Black baseball stars such as Gibson, Cool Papa Bell and Oscar Charleston that they were forbidden from participating in the AL or NL, and recognizing the Negro Leagues as Major Leagues is in keeping with long-held beliefs that the quality of the segregation-era Negro Leagues circuits was comparable to the MLB product in that same time period.

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Which Negro Leagues will be included in the official record?

There are seven, and they operated between 1920 and 1948. The reason for the starting point is that attempts to develop Negro Leagues prior to 1920 were ultimately unsuccessful and lacked a league structure. And 1948 was deemed to be a reasonable end point because it was the last year of the Negro National League and the segregated World Series. After that point, the Negro League teams and leagues that had endured were stripped of much of their talent.

The seven leagues are as follows:

• Negro National League (I) (1920–1931) • Eastern Colored League (1923–1928) • American Negro League (1929) • East-West League (1932) • Negro Southern League (1932) • Negro National League (II) (1933–1948) • Negro American League (1937–1948)

Major League Baseball is recognizing the stats of 7 different Negro Leagues between 1920 and 1948 into the record book. This comes almost four years after the league announced that the leagues would be classified as Major Leagues.

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First Caucasion Joins Negro Baseball League - After Long Struggle

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1948 Birmingham Black Barons Team - Including 17-year-old Willie Mays!