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MLB: Negro Leagues were a major league
The Kansas City Monarchs of 1934 pose for a team photo; exact date unknown. (Photo by Mark Rucker/Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images) NEW YORK (AP) - Major League Baseball has reclassified the Negro Leagues as a major league and will count the statistics and records of its 3,400 players as part of its history.The league said Wednesday it was "correcting a longtime oversight in the game's history" by elevating the Negro Leagues on the centennial of its founding.