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[ad_1] ShowBiz Minute 3/30: Crow, Paltrow, Baldwin ShowBiz Minute 3/30: Crow, Paltrow, Baldwin 00:59 LOS ANGELES (AP) — MLB The Show has broken a video game barrier: For the first time, the franchise will insert some of the greatest Negro League players — from Satchel Paige to Jackie Robinson — into the 2023 edition of the game as playable characters. Video gamers are now able to venture into a storyline mode involving eight Negro League legends through MLB The Show 23, which releases Tuesday. The narrative experience will feature short videos about the players along with gameplay focused on the epic moments of their careers. Along with Robinson and Paige, the game also features...

[ad_1] Paterson, New Jersey — For Black baseball players from the 1920s through the 1940s, the Negro leagues were home. Notable owners, managers and players who never made it into the history books of Major League Baseball are a major part of a new documentary called "The League," which recounts the dramatic ups and downs of the Negro leagues. "It's just amazing, the trials and tribulations they had to go through, just to play the game that they loved, baseball," director Sam Pollard told CBS News. Pollard relied on archival material and accounts from players like the late Hank Aaron. Before being known as the man who broke Babe Ruth's MLB career record for home runs, Aaron played for Negro league teams. "We got one dollar a day meal money, and we would buy one loaf of bread and we would buy a big jar of peanut butter," Aaron says in the documentary. "That's what we lived off of for three ...