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Gibson statue is unveiled at Heinz History Center

By Kevin Kirkland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Posted on Friday, June 29, 2012 10:00 AM
PITTSBURGH -- What did Josh Gibson look like when he rifled the ball down to second to catch a would-be base-stealer?

That was the predicament facing staffers of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and LifeFormations, the Bowling Green, Ohio-based company that created the lifelike figure of the famous Negro League catcher that was unveiled Thursday at the Senator John Heinz History Center in the Strip District.

When Sean Gibson, executive director of the Josh Gibson Foundation, pulled the cloth from the statue, it was obvious he resembles his great-grandfather.
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Pittsburgh's Negro League heritage celebrated

By Annie Maroon, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Posted on Saturday, June 25, 2011 4:09 AM
PITTSBURGH -- The Josh Gibson Foundation, headed by Gibson's great-grandson, Sean, will host the Josh Gibson Centennial Negro League Gala on Aug. 13 at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh.

The event will honor the 100th anniversary of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords slugger's birth in 1911.

Sean Gibson said Tuesday that the foundation will award two local high school students with scholarships in Gibson's name, as well as honoring Hall of Fame outfielder Reggie Jackson with the Josh Gibson Legacy Award.
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Negro League players remind us about potential that baseball stole

By Nick Canepa: Posted on Wednesday, June 15, 2011 1:42 PM
SAN DIEGO -- Many scores and years after Lincoln abolished slavery, African-Americans still couldn’t do a lot of things and go a lot of places where white people worked, dined, resided and played. They could go to war. But they couldn’t play major league baseball.

It is one of our greatest shames.

Even after Jackie Robinson broke through baseball’s color line in 1947, the Negro Leagues, which produced some of the greatest players in history, remained necessary because MLB couldn’t scrape off all of its lily-white skin overnight.
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Why The Negro Leagues Still Matter

By Tony McClean, The Batchelor Pad: Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:01 AM
"In an alternate universe, this is the man, not Babe Ruth, whose short, compact swing produces the longest, and most home runs. He would be the charismatic figure that would first reach 500, 600, and 700 career home runs. Playing in the Negro Leagues in the 1930s, he never got the chance to play Major League Baseball. The home-run record for a catcher in the major leagues was only 209 until the mid-1950s. Gibson would have had two or three times that amount."
-- Elliott Kalb on Josh Gibson.
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The Last .400 Hitter

By Tony McClean, The Batchelor Pad: Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 3:54 PM
CONNECTICUT (BP) -- When Boston's Ted Williams hit .406 to win the AL batting crown in 1941, he was regarded by many as baseball's last .400 hitter. 

However, a brief look at the history books would prove you wrong.

Some seven years after the Spendid Splinter turned the trick, one of the best leadoff hitters in the history of Negro League baseball would take his place as professional baseball's last .400 hitter.

Artie Wilson of the Birmingham Black Barons was regarded by many as one of the finest shortstops in the Negro Leagues in 1940's.
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