A number of MLB legends came from the Negro Leagues and helped transform and elevate the sport to its current heights.

An opera about Negro Leagues slugger Josh Gibson will premiere in Pittsburgh in April 2017.

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    Over the course of its history, The Negro Leagues spawned a series of baseball legends with many going on to dominate in the formerly all-White Major League Baseball organization. Catcher Josh Gibson, the home run king of the Negro League, never got a chance to go to the big show, but was properly recognized […]

Sherman “Jocko” Maxwell was the nation’s first African-American sportscaster, with special coverage of Negro League baseball. http://www.blackamericaweb.com/?q=articles/news/the_black_diaspora_news/30737