Wrong Righted?

On May 29, NPR carried this story about Major League Baseball (MLB): “The MLB announced on Wednesday [May 29] that it has incorporated the statistics of more than 2,300 Negro Leagues players from 1920 to 1948 into its records, which are now available in a newly integrated online database.” Databases like these are reference Libraries. That they were separate in the first place is of a piece with banning Black stories from Libraries, such as Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” or Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Such separation, or like behavior, is the original American Shame. Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey, are you watching? Willie Mays passed away at 93 on June 18. He began his professional career with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948. Fortunately fo…