The long wait is over: Major League Baseball finally honors Negro League greats

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The inductees include Bud Fowler, who played against white players before baseball segregated, and Buck O’Neil, player and founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Buck O'Neil stands with a statue of himself in the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2005. O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during a monumental career on and off the field, has joined Gil Hodges, Minnie Minoso and three others in being elected to the baseball Hall of Fame on Dec. 5, 2021.

“This is why we didn't see Black players playing on major league teams, why there were Negro League teams in the ‘20s, ‘30s and ‘40s,” she says, “and why Jackie Robinson is credited as the first Black player to play Major League Baseball.” Buck O'Neil walks to the field as he is introduced before a minor league all-star game on July 18, 2006, in Kansas City, Kan.

 

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