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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.

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Black baseball players celebrated

Monday marks the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut in Major League Baseball. When he took first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Robinson ended 80 years of segregation in baseball. Decades earlier, a team of Black players were making a name for themselves in the independent leagues of the Midwest. Now, nearly 100 years later, those players and their contributions to baseball are getting their just due and inspiring a new generation of players.

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