FILE PHOTO: Feb 19, 2019; Glendale, AZ, USA; Baseball commissioner Robert D. Manfred, Jr. answers questions from the media during spring training media day at the Glendale Civic Center. Mandatory Credit: Jayne Kamin-Oncea-USA TODAY Sports
(Reuters) - Major League Baseball (MLB) is elevating the Negro Leagues of 1920 through 1948 to "Major League" status, MLB said on Wednesday, calling the move a correction of "a longtime oversight".
The records and statistics of the Negro Leagues, in which Black players competed after being forced out of MLB competition due to racism and "Jim Crow" segregation laws, will be incorporated into MLB history, a century after the formal introduction of the Leagues.
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