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Canada welcomed former Negro Leagues players

The integration of Major League Baseball was “certainly the death knell of the Negro Leagues,” says Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. But the end of segregated baseball also sent an influx of talent north to Canada. Canadian Baseball Network writer J.P. Antonacci shares the story of the Negro Leagues players who found jobs with teams north of the border.

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New Canadian hall inductees recall their tenures north of the border

Montreal Expos legend Pedro Martinez, long-time Toronto Blue Jays great Lloyd Moseby and Canada's premier baseball historian Bill Humber were announced as the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2018 on Thursday. Canadian Baseball Network writer Danny Gallagher participated in a conference call with the three new inductees and has this story.

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Expos legend Guerrero joins Jones, Thome, Hoffman in 2018 HOF class

Montreal Expos legend Vladimir Guerrero has been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Joining him in the class of 2018 will be Chipper Jones, Jim Thome and Trevor Hoffman. The four new inductees will be honorued as part of the Hall’s Induction Weekend July 27-30 in Cooperstown, N.Y., along with pitcher Jack Morris and shortstop Alan Trammell, who were elected in December by the Modern Baseball Era Committee.

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