Tyler Kepner of The New York Times reports on Major League Baseball’s decision to add Negro Leagues statistics to the official MLB records, a welcome announcement to many, including baseball superstar Willie Mays, quoted in this article. However, as Bob Kendrick, president of the Neo Leagues Baseball Museum asserts, “…you can never reduce the Negro leagues to just statistics. You can not. It’s just so much more profound than that.”
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