M.L.B.'s Records Were Never Real. But the Racism Was. Ask Satchel Paige

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/opinion/mlb-baseball-race-history.html

"Major League Baseball keeps vowing to redress its racist past, but its half-steps only reinforce the elusiveness of that goal, for it and the rest of America.

The league’s latest push, unveiled with fanfare last week, was to formally recognize the most prominent of the Negro leagues as equal to the American and National leagues.

That, M.L.B.’s commissioner says, means that more than 3,400 players from seven distinct all-Black conferences will become part of big-league history, and included in its statistical records.

Easier said than done, as the case of the most celebrated of those players — Leroy Robert Paige, better known as Satchel — makes clear."