The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum received a substantial gift on Wednesday from Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred and players association executive director Tony Clark were at the museum on Wednesday to announce that they are making a $1 million donation to the NLBM. Clark proposed the idea to Manfred of creating partnership with the museum about a year ago.
“Whenever you try to rebuild something like rebuild African-American participation in our game, you need a great foundation,” Manfred said. “The foundation of our effort with respect to African-American players had to be an effort to make young players understand the Negro Leagues, understand the significance of the Negro Leagues to African-American history and more broadly, to American history.