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Vahe Gregorian

Vahe Gregorian: ‘It’s not just a video game’: Negro Leagues baseball comes alive in ‘MLB The Show 23’

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The last home video game Bob Kendrick played with any regularity was via Atari, circa the Jurassic Era of the genre in the late 1970s/early ‘80s.

“It was ‘Pong,’ ” he said, laughing. “Of course it was.”

Even so, the irresistible force and intrepid spirit who ever-so-aptly presides over the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum long had a notion that the burgeoning industry might be an avenue toward appealing to a more youthful audience.

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