Negro Leagues

Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history

Cutouts of six legendary figures from baseball’s Negro Leagues will be in the stands behind the Los Angeles Angels dugout Sunday as part of Major League Baseball’s celebration of the NLB’s centennial. A Negro Leagues tribute video will be played on Angel Stadium’s scoreboards before the interleague game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The cutouts are of Cool Papa...

Former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama are among those who are tipping their caps in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues.

Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues. The campaign launched Monday with photos and videos from, among others, Hank Aaron, Rachel Robinson Derek Jeter, Colin Powell, Michael Jordan,...