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The Tip Your Cap 2020 campaign has received more than 100 million impressions in mainstream and social media around the world.
CBS Night and Day
Tip Your Cap stories on CBS Evening News and CBS This Morning.
What they’re writing
Today
“The three presidents have joined a host of luminaries taking part in the "Tipping Your Cap" campaign to pay tribute to the Negro Leagues, which existed from 1920 until the early 1960s and produced 35 Hall of Famers, including Jackie Robinson, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson.”
People
“As sports fans prepare for a shortened Major League Baseball season — of some kind — three former presidents joined on Monday in tipping their caps to baseball's Black legends for the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues.”
Sports Illustrated
“Former President Barack Obama joined a group of notable athletes and activists in tipping his cap to honor the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball's Negro Leagues.”
The Associated Press
“Barack Obama tipped his cap. So did three other former U.S. presidents and a host of prominent civil rights leaders, entertainers and sports greats in a virtual salute to the 100-year anniversary of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues.”
MLB.com
“Leave it to Bob Kendrick to come up with another inspired idea to help raise the profile of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which had grand plans to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro Leagues in 2020, many of which have been hindered by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Athletic
“The goal here is simple: We want you to take a moment and tip your cap to the Negro Leagues. We want you to take a moment to commemorate those baseball players who were denied even the hope of playing in the Major Leagues.”
Today Show
“How cool is that, a virtual salute from three former presidents to mark today’s centennial of the founding of baseball’s Negro Leagues.”
Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo., was originally scheduled to be in San Francisco this past Saturday as part of Major League Baseball’s celebration of the Negro Leagues’ 100th anniversary. The Giants were to wear throwback Sea Lions jerseys in honor of San Francisco’s representative in the West Coast Negro Baseball Association in 1946, while the rival Los Angeles Dodgers would sport 1947 uniforms in tribute to Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s color barrier that year when the franchise was still in Brooklyn.
In 1934, Negro Leagues great Oliver “The Ghost” Marcelle, a Denver resident, lobbied the sports editor of The Denver Post to let the Kansas City Monarchs play in the newspaper’s annual semi-pro tournament.
Sports Raid
Here’s a wonderful story written by Brandon Anderson on his Medium site Sports Raid. Check it out!