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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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