“The best pleasure in life is doing what people tell you you can’t do.” Walter Bagehot.
The story of Big leagues has made a drastic but sensible change to make the decision to adjust its official record books recognizing the performance of those players who played in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1948 and who will now have their statistics and achievements recognized by MLB. Players who participated in both the Negro Leagues and MLB will have both sets of statistics counted on their career resume. More than 3,400 players will now have their names officially recorded in the MLB record books following baseball’s reclassification.
MLB proceeded along with Elias Sports Bureau the official investigator to validate everything related to statistics and brands of these players.
In 1920 there was the Negro National League, where all dark-skinned baseball players participated; and by 1926 a Dominican pitcher, the Montecristeño pitcher, made his debut. Peter Alexander Saint, who at the time was a highly sought-after player. He was the first of us to participate in that colored ball, then Tetelo Vargas, Horacio Martínez, Enrique Lantigua, Gustavo Lluberes and Andrés Julio Báez (Cricket B) made their entrance. San was a member of the “Cuban Stars” team. Montecristi gave birth to the first Creoles who played in the best black and white baseball: Pedro Alejandro San and Osvaldo Virgil. “Those of us who love baseball have known for a long time that the Negro Leagues produced many of the best players, innovations and triumphs in our sport in a context of injustice,” said the commissioner. Rob Manfred.
From the birth of the Dominican Republic in 1844 to 1920, the majority of the people had three great passions: the Catholic religion, the cockfights and the armed movements, until the spark of baseball ignited.
In 1912, in Santo Domingo the National Baseball League in the style of professional leagues similar to those of the United States and Cuba. In 1912, the Mephistopheles magazine said in an editorial: “Baseball, which is a Yankee game, we like it and hopefully it would spread in our land”, and in the magazine La Cuna de América it is read: “Nothing is comparable with passion capital city for baseball, which has become the favorite sport of this sedentary village ”.
In 1951, to please the Trujillo government the decision was made to bury the past history of baseball and we have continued to drag this crime down. History cannot be buried in one fell swoop, the time has come for it to be unearthed, made official and given its rightful place.
A sample that baseball was played was that on August 16, 1912 the National Baseball Championship organized by the National Baseball League was inaugurated, presided over by Ignacio Guerra with the Licey, Nuevo Club and Ozama teams, endowed with a prize of $ 200 pesos for the champion.
Oscar Charleston, the Hall of Fame center fielder and Negro Leagues legend, now ranks fourth on the all-time OPS leaderboard (between Lou Gehrig y Barry Bonds), while Satchel Paige it ranks seventh on the all-time adjusted leaderboard.
FALLECIO MUDCAT GRANT: Jim “Mudcat” Grant, the first black winner of 20 games in the American League and a key part of Minnesota’s first team in the 1965 World Series, has died. He was 85 years old.
A DAY LIKE TODAY: In 1997, Antonio Alfonseca makes his debut with the Marlins against Detroit, achieving the victory and becomes the first pitcher in the franchise to make his debut winning.
In 1998, Vladimir Guerrero, Montreal, stole home plate in a game against the Dodgers.
In 2001, Sammy Sosa, hit his 20th homer off the pitcher Bob Wells. For Sosa it was the eighth season with 20 or more home runs. He scored his 1,000 career to become the first Dominican with 1,000 runs scored and 1,000 RBIs.
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