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The early report card on this year’s Boston Red Sox baseball team has been spotty. Off to an 8-win-10-loss start, this edition of Sox baseball is not drawing any raves from their faithful fandom.

With a heart throbbing World Series concluded, conversation and speculation around the campfire has begun for the 2025 Major League Baseball season. Will a true Los Angeles Dodgers dynasty emerge? How will the New York Yankees rise above their embarrassing game five melt down?

As of this writing, we find the Major League Baseball playoffs in the divisional round of competition.

The words “justice delayed is justice denied” seem appropriate for this story, which centers on Major League Baseball’s attempt to right a century-old wrong. I am speaking about MLB’s recent announcement that it will incorporate the statistics of the Negro League’s baseball legends of the past into its official record books.

When legal gambling on sports began to explode in the U.S., some critics said it was just a matter of time before athletes themselves were caught up in the billion-dollar business of wagering on contests.

A recently released documentary follows attempts made by Major League Baseball to increase the number of Black athletes on its 30 teams.