Tagged: Negro Leagues

Sports
7:00 am
Sun April 8, 2012

Negro League Stats, As They've Never Been Seen

Originally published on Sun April 8, 2012 11:07 am

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:

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KCUR News
4:02 pm
Thu July 15, 2010

Black Baseball Stars Honored By Stamps

Credit photo by dan verbeck
Thurgood Marshall Jr at memorial stamp issue.

Kansas City, MO – The U.S. Postal Service has taken wraps off two commemorative stamps honoring baseball leagues that led the way toward racial integration. The stamp issue came at the Kansas City Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

Thurgood Marshall Jr. of the Postal board of Governors noted how Jackie Robinson's 1947 breaking of the color line led to integration of sports and society and politics.

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