“All of us who love baseball have long known that the Negro Leagues produced many of our game’s best players, innovations and triumphs against a backdrop of injustice," Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement. "We are now grateful to count the players of the Negro Leagues where they belong: as Major Leaguers within the official historical record.”
The league said it was “correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history” by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding.
