In other words, as I argued Wednesday on “Around the Horn”: “The Negro Leagues were never less than major. They weren’t minor leagues.” Black people aren’t in need of White ...

A 17-person committee chaired by John Thorn, Major League Baseball's official historian, met six times as part of the meticulous process of examining statistics from seven Negro Leagues from 1920 ...

MLB announced on Wednesday morning that seven distinct Negro Leagues will be given official “major league” status, a long-overdue correction related to the leagues that produced some of ...