The GUIDE Salutes Leaguer Sam Allen of Norfolk

By Leonard E. Colvin

Chief Reporter

New Journal and Guide

This year’s abbreviated season of professional baseball due to COVID-19 can’t underplay that it is still the 100th anniversary of the Negro League Baseball.

In August, according to the sports website “The Ringer”, Major League Baseball celebrated the centennial of the founding of the Negro National League, the first of the seven segregation-era circuits formed during the 1920s or 1930s that have collectively come to be labeled “the Negro Leagues.”

Players, managers, coaches, and umpires received the Negro Leagues’ 100th-anniversary logo and Negro Leagues–related programming was on display.

Continue reading Negro League Baseball Observes Its Centennial at The New Journal and Guide.