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Today’s @mlb celebration honoring the founding of the Negro National League 100 years ago is much deserved.
But in the 2019 collection of essays, The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues, historian @jhowardhistory makes a
Today’s @mlb celebration honoring the founding of the Negro National League 100 years ago is much deserved.
But in the 2019 collection of essays, The Negro Leagues Were Major Leagues, historian @jhowardhistory makes a
salient point: “By shaping a celebratory public memory of the Negro Leagues, modern professional baseball forwards the idea that MLB is the pinnacle of baseball achievement, an idea that is certainly true today but was not strictly true for the first half of the 20th century.
In forwarding MLB supremacy, modern professional baseball reduces the Negro Leagues to a lower status as a ‘lesser’ or ‘minor’ league in terms of importance, legacy, and player ability.”
Even as they are being celebrated, the Negro Major Leagues remain slighted by a prejudiced
Even as they are being celebrated, the Negro Major Leagues remain slighted by a prejudiced
decision made over 50 years ago to exclude them from the official list of major leagues; the legendary players being honored today are still not included in MLB records and classifications as being of “major league status”, though historians and experts have repeatedly revealed
that the Negro Major Leagues embodied the official definition as being “A league at the highest level of organized or professional baseball”. There is one way MLB can right this wrong: by incorporating the NML into official MLB records. For the first time ever, they are
considering it. It doesn’t need to be considered, it just needs to be done.
And when it is, Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson will finally be recognized as the first women to ever play Major League Baseball. It will be a win for everyone and I can’t wait.
And when it is, Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie “Peanut” Johnson will finally be recognized as the first women to ever play Major League Baseball. It will be a win for everyone and I can’t wait.
