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Negro league baseball
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven
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Roy Campanella
Roy Camanella was major league baseballs first black catcher.
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Jan
0
2000
Astros legend Bob ‘The Bull’ Watson dies at 74
HOUSTON — Bob “The Bull” Watson, the first African-American GM to win a World Series, died Thursday due to kidney
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Pete's Dragon (2016)
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RIP Seaver and Brock - The New York Beacon
  By Andrew Rosario   Baseball lost two great and totally different players this past week in Tom Seaver of the New York Mets and Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals. In the history of the New York Mets, who at one point was
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Winfield student-athlete awards announced
The student-athlete winners of the Winfield Awards were announced last month with adjustments made due to the coronavirus
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Almost Christmas (2016)
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Schott-Free: University Of Cincinnati Trustees Vote To Take Name Off Ballpark
On Tuesday, the University of Cincinnati board of trustees voted unanimously to take down the name of Marge Schott from the school's baseball stadium, effective
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Jackie Roosevelt Robinson's professional debut
Jackie Roosevelt Robinson made his professional debut as a member of the Montreal Royals in the
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Mar
17
1946
Kevin Durant Says He Will Not Return When The NBA Restarts The 2019-20 Season
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Abe Attell
Abe Attell , byname the Little Champ (born February 22, 1884, San Francisco, California, U.S.—died February 7, 1970, New Paltz, New York), American professional boxer, undisputed world featherweight champion from 1906 through 1912. Attell was from a poor Jewish family and began his boxing career
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Frank Robinson
Ruth Robinson’s tenth and last child, Frank Robinson Jr., was born in August 31, 1935 after her marriage to her third husband, Frank Robinson. Unfortunately, her third marriage did not work out either and the mother moved to California from Texas with Robinson Jr. and his two
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Aug
31
1935
Baseball Outfielder William "Bill" White born
Baseball outfielder William Bill White was born in Lakewood, Ohio. Now baeballs National League President, White played in 1,673 games and ended his career with a .286 batting average on 1,706 hits. He won the Golden Glove award in 1960 and 1966.
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Jan
28
1934
Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt Chamberlain (born Wilton Norman Chamberlain) was an American basketball star who played for several NBA teams. Chamberlain  was born on August 21, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied at Overbrook High School where he played on his school’s team for three years, scoring more than
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Aug
21
1936
Silver says significant spread of COVID-19 in Orlando could halt play
(Reuters) – The NBA season could again be put on hold if there is a “significant spread” of COVID-19 among its players in Orlando, where the league is set to resume play on July 30 with no fans in attendance, commissioner Adam Silver said
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Astros owner wants fans in Minute Maid Park to make up for revenue loss
Astros owner Jim Crane has an idea of how his season will go and to some it strikes a tone-deaf chord Wednesday when the billionaire told reporters that he will need to allow fans to attend games at Minute Maid Park during this coronavirus pandemic in order to offset revenue losses for the 2020
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Thomas, Debi (1967- )
Debi Thomas is a figure skater and physician, and the first African American woman to win a medal in the Winter Olympics. Thomas was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1967 and first started skating around the age of five. However she did not get serious and begin taking lessons until she was nine
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Chicago White Sox to possibly add ads to uniforms | The Crusader Newspaper Group
With the baseball season on hold due to COVID-19, the White Sox and other MLB teams might be adding a few changes to their current look: “advertisements to their
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Legendary Celtic
Bill Russell was both player and coach of the legendary Boston Celtics basketball team for three season, from 1966 through 1969. In two of these seasons (1967-68 and 1968-69) he led the Celtics to the National Basketball Association national championship. As a Celtic from 1956 to 1969, he averaged
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Collateral Beauty (2016)
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Community colleges could see influx of athletes as coronavirus disrupts sports recruiting | Black Voice News
Thanks to the coronavirus, he was right: In March, the California Community College Athletic Association announced it was cancelling all spring sports, mirroring a similar decision by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which oversees university
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The Rev. Carroll R. Chambliss, Sr.: An AME Scouting Legend
He and his sister, Nora Lou, and four brothers, Jessie Jr, Francis, Leonard (Leo), and Carey, grew up as members of Pearl Street AME Church in
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Florence Griffith Joyner
Florence Dolorez Griffith Joyner was an American athlete, who is considered to be one of the fastest women of all time. She was also known for being a trend setter on the field, with her fashionable outfits and long nails. She was born in Los Angeles, California on December 21, 1959 and raised in
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Dec
21
1959
MLB’s lacking social voice and the decline of African-American ballplayers
Every April 15, Major League Baseball touts the legacy of Jackie Robinson and the game’s role in changing the face of sports in
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MLB Commits $10 Million To Push For Diversity In Baseball– From The Field To The Front Office
MLB Commits $10 Million To Push For Diversity In Baseball-- From The Field To The Front Office
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Championship Ring Kobe Bryant Gifted His Mother Sells For More Than $200K
In a few years we’ll hopefully have Bryant’s documentary akin to Jordan’s The Last Dance, but for now we have the youtube highlights, the retro Nike Kobe‘s, and those close to him even have some
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Moises Alou
Moises Alou, major league baseball outfielder, is born.
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Jul
3
1966
Michael Jordan
Michael Jeffery Jordan is an American basketball legend who played for the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards for 15 seasons. Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York and grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. In high school he played baseball, football, and basketball. When he
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Feb
17
1963
Elgin Baylor
Elgin Gay Baylor was a professional basketball player, who played for Los Angeles Lakers. He was born on September 16, 1934 and began playing basketball from an early age. Two of his older brothers were also basketball players, and Baylor took naturally to the game. He was already known to be
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Sep
16
1934
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant is 6’7″ tall and played guard… He wore the jersey number 8 for years, but switched to 24 at the start of the 2006 NBA season… According to Kobe Bryant’s NBA bio, his parents “named him after a kind of steak (kobe) seen on a restaurant menu prior to his
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