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MLB to honor Willie Mays, Negro Leagues

Major League Baseball's St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants will pay homage to Willie Mays and baseball's Negro Leagues Thursday night with a game at Alabama's Rickwood Field, the oldest ballpark in America still in use and the former home of the Negro League Birmingham Black Barons. Mays, an Alabama native, played for the Black Barons in 1948. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett has more on the significance of the game, coincidentally being played just a few days after Mays' death.

Ohtani's former interpreter to enter plea

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter of Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani, is expected to enter a not guilty plea Tuesday to bank fraud and tax charges that he allegedly illegally transferred almost $17 million from the baseball star's bank account. However, the not guilty plea is a formality, as federal prosecutors previously announced that Mizuhara will plead guilty at a later date as part of a plea deal. CBS News' Adam Yamaguchi reports.

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