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Black Baseball History Takes Center Stage at Hall of Fame

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[ad_1] Octavius Catto’s impact was mostly unknown here at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, amid the sport’s heroic feats of lore and legend, like Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hit streak, Ted Williams’s .406 batting average and Hank Aaron’s 715th home run to break Babe Ruth’s record. Catto, born a free Black man, turned … Read more

Whitey Herzog, Hall of Fame Cardinals Manager, Dies at 92

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[ad_1] Whitey Herzog, the Hall of Fame manager who led the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series championship in the 1980s, died on Monday in St. Louis. He was 92 and had been the second-oldest Hall of Famer after Willie Mays. His death was announced by the Cardinals. “Baseball has been … Read more