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The Dodgers received exclusive sneakers in the team’s color scheme from Vanessa Bryant, the widow of late Lakers star Kobe Bryant’s Nike line.
22 days ago
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MLB said it was retroactively elevating the Negro Leagues to major-league status in 2020. Those statistics could soon be entered into the record book.
2 months ago
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Only 19 of 342 Hall of Famers are Latino, but their numbers have almost doubled since 2011 after only 10 Latinos inducted in the previous 38 years.
7 months ago
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Little League World Series includes team from Cuba - Bayamo - for the first time. One player is the cousin of major-leaguers Yuli and Lourdes Gurriel.
9 months ago
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Palmyra-Macedon High won the Section V Class B1 championship in New York as Hornell High player failed to tag the batter on a dropped third strike.
11 months ago
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The Black press, led by sports writers Wendell Smith and Sam Lacy, advocated to end baseball’s color barrier and integrate MLB in the 1930s and 1940s.
over 1 year ago
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Ralph Ávila, who helped create the Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball academy in the Dominican Republic in the 1980s, died Monday in Miami at age 92.
over 1 year ago
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The Houston Astros this season became the first MLB team since the 1960s to have
at least 21 Cuban-born players throughout the organization.
over 1 year ago
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From “defections” to “legal” exits, the exodus of baseball players from Cuba has
seen many twists and turns as they try to reach the U.S. and MLB.
over 1 year ago
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Megan Rapinoe called out the “insanity” of the United States’ mass shooting
epidemic in the wake of Tuesday’s massacre in Uvalde, Texas.
almost 2 years ago
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A team of Cuban major leaguers playing in the World Baseball Classic? A Miami group hopes to make it happen, but international rules make it unlikely.
about 2 years ago
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Tony Oliva lived to see the day he was finally elected to the Baseball Hall of
Fame. Fellow Cuban star Minnie Miñoso didn’t. They will go in together.
over 2 years ago
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With four Cubans in the White Sox’s lineup and two each for the Rays and Astros,
the island nation will be well represented in the 2021 MLB playoffs.
over 2 years ago
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Cuba’s all-time baseball lineup is a mix of players from different eras: Major leaguers, winter ball stars, Cuban National Team players and defectors.
over 2 years ago
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Minnie Miñoso, MLB’s first Black Latino superstar, is considered as the “Jackie
Robinson” for Latino baseball players.
over 2 years ago