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Texas leads in Pro Football Hall of Famers, but how does state compare in other sports?

DALLAS — No state has more native-born players in the Pro Football Hall of Fame than the state of Texas. Zach Thomas’ recent election will add to the number of Texans enshrined in Canton, Ohio.

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MLB The Show video game will include storylines on legendary Negro Leagues players

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is one of the best places to visit in Kansas City, because there is much to learn about the men and women who were part of that piece of U.S. history.

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Dodgers make it a day to remember with Negro Leagues museum visit and 12th consecutive win

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A day brimming with an appreciation for the past eventually had the Dodgers cherishing the present and peering excitedly into a future that gets more promising with every game. Call it a win, win, win.

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Cubs’ Marcus Stroman pitches idea for next Field Of Dreams-type event

The Cubs and Reds played in the second annual Field of Dreams game on Thursday. What’s the next marquee event?

Chicago Sun-Times

Chiefs’ Justin Reid, Trent McDuffie visited Negro Leagues Baseball Museum for Juneteenth

A pair of new #Chiefs celebrated #Juneteenth by taking a trip to @NLBMuseumKC with over a dozen football players from Lincoln College Preparatory Academy.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Chet Brewer's best delivery was helping Black players reach the major leagues

LOS ANGELES — It was only one at-bat, but it changed the direction of Reggie Smith's career.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Robinson’s legacy: ‘He changed a country,’ and is still relevant 75 years later

PHILADELPHIA — When Jackie Robinson stepped out on to Ebbets Field in 1947 in the alabaster Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, “American apartheid flashed into view like wicked lightning,” in the words of author Roger Kahn. A tempest of change had arrived and its impact would be felt across America extending way…

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Michael Cunningham: The Negro leagues are major league, but MLB can’t claim them

ATLANTA — Larry Lester grew up watching the Kansas City Monarchs at the ballpark near his home in late 1950s and early ‘60s. The Negro leagues had declined by then because of MLB’s racial integration, but their legends were part of his community. Buck O’Neil’s wife, Ora, was one of…

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