With snow falling in Baltimore on Wednesday and no baseball games to be played, a few players with ties to the city still found their way into the major league record books.
Major League Baseball announced Wednesday it was officially recognizing seven professional Negro Leagues as major leagues, meaning the more than 3,000 players who participated in those segregated leagues from 1920 to 1948 will be categorized as majors leaguers and have their statistics reported accordingly. MLB’s statement on the recognition referred to it as “correcting a longtime oversight.”
The Negro Leagues’ 100th anniversary was celebrated earlier this year, and the Orioles plan to recognize it again next season with a giveaway of a cap for the Baltimore Elite Giants, one of two Negro League teams in the city along with the Baltimore Black Sox.