Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On March 3, 1920, a group of African American businessmen gathered for a meeting in Atlanta, to talk about baseball. Just a month ...

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy"... Players in baseball's segregation-era Negro Leagues unite ...

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More than 25,000 fans witness history as Jackie Robinson bats second and plays first for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking Major League Baseball’s color barrier. It was Opening Day at Ebbets Field, and ...

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues. During ...