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Uni Bracket - Play In
This week’s Spotlight is a celebration of the opening of another incredible Baseball season. We are also going to pay tribute to another great tradition of March Madness and do a bracket for the be...
Hall of Fame
WHM - Owners - Women in Charge
The Negro Leagues broke barriers in many ways, but perhaps no greater contribution that putting Women in charge. This Women't History Month we celebrate the Women owners of the Negro Leagues.
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Negro League
WHM - Peanut Johnson and Connie Morgan
Women's History Month celebrates the women who came after Toni Stone - Mamie "Peanut" Johnson and Connie Morgan.
Mamie "Peanut" Johnson was the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro L...
Negro League
WHM - Doris Jackson & Deseria Robinson - Understudy to History
Some members of history are forgotten because they didn't get their time at bat, but Doris Jackson and Deseria Robinson were almost famous as understudies to Baseball's first female player Toni Sto...
Media
Toni Stone - Negro Leagues First Female Player
This week as part of Women's History Month, we introduce you to some amazing women - today Toni Stone, the Negro Leagues first female player.
It was 1953, and many of the stars of the Negro L...
BHM
BHM - Rachel Robinson - Without Rachel, would there have been a Jackie?
As we straddle Black History Month and Women's History Month, is there a better way to celebrate than honoring the timeless Rachel Robinson. Without Rachel, would there have been a Jackie?
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BHM
BHM - Charley Pride - Hall of Famer
Charley Pride was a Hall of Famer, but if you had asked him early in his life, he would have told you he thought it would have been the Baseball Hall of Fame and not the Country Music Hall of Fam...
BHM
BHM - Negro Leagues Baseball Museum - Footsteps of History
The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is dedicated to not only preserving the legacy of the Negro Leagues, but also chronicling the civil rights contributions of the league, its players and their foo...
BHM
BHM - Bob Kendrick - Keeper of the Flame
When Bob Kendrick was named President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in 2011, he was entrusted with the stories and history of the Negro Leagues - he was the Keeper of the Flame.
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