Negro league baseball

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2022 Buck O'Neil and Bud Fowler, key figures in Negro league baseball, are inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
December 2020 Major League Baseball officially classified the seven 'major Negro leagues' as additional major leagues, recognizing approximately 3,400 players who played from 1920 to 1948.
July 17 2010 The U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative pair of 44-cent stamps honoring the Negro Leagues, formally issued at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum during its twentieth anniversary celebration. One stamp specifically depicted Rube Foster, a key figure in Negro league baseball.

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