SDS has posted a new MLB The Show 23 Storylines video today featuring night baseball games, which all started in the Negro Leagues. The video features Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick narrating the history behind it all. Night baseball originated in the Negro Leagues, five years before a night game was played in the Majors.
Prior to night games, the Negro League games were primarily regulated to playing on Sundays, renting ball parks from major league teams, since the MLB didn’t play much on Sunday’s.
Owner of the Kansas City Monarchs, J.L. Wilkenson, basically mortgaged everything he had to pioneer night baseball with portable generated lights. Players would lose the ball in the lights and fans would laugh, but in the end, as stated by the Kansas City Call, it was very effective.
The Monarchs would do for baseball what talking had done for the movies.
Players can learn a lot more about the influence the Negro Leagues had on baseball with the new Storylines mode in MLB The Show 23.
MLB The Show 23 will release on March 28 for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch. It’s also coming to Xbox Game Pass for the third consecutive year on Day One. For those of you getting either of the Collector’s Editions, you will get four days of early access starting on March 24.
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