MLB Reclassifies Negro Leagues As Major League

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Published on December 17 2020 6:15 am
Last Updated on December 17 2020 6:15 am

Major League Baseball announced Wednesday that it’s reclassifying the Negro Leagues as a major league, meaning the statistics and records of Negro League greats like Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige and others are set to join MLB’s books.

The announcement came on the centennial of the Negro Leagues founding, with MLB saying it was “correcting a longtime oversight.”

The Negro Leagues consisted of seven leagues, and MLB will include records from them between 1920 and 1948. The Negro Leagues began to break up one year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line in 1947.

MLB will work with the Elias Sports Bureau to review Negro Leagues stats and records and figure out how to incorporate them.

 

Vizquel Denies Domestic Abuse

Retired longtime MLB shortstop Omar Vizquel is denying domestic abuse allegations made by his wife in a story published in ‘The Athletic’ Wednesday.
Blanca Vizquel claimed her husband first assaulted her in 2011, three years before they got married, and then in 2016. The 36-year-old described another angry dispute with him last August, which she said led her to file for divorce.

Omar said in a statement he’d cheated on Blanca and apologized, but the 53-year-old stated, “Let me be clear and unequivocal. I have never hit or been violent towards my wife, Blanca. Any accusation to the contrary is false.”