Alexander Austin’s mural of Negro League baseball players ‘The Kansas City Monarchs’ in Kansas City, Missouri on August 12, 2017. MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION – RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
Sixty-four years after the last vestiges of the Negro Leagues, more of the surviving players from those leagues will receive financial assistance from Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association.
The MLBPA, along with MLB, announced on May 22 that players who played fewer than four seasons in the Negro Leagues would be eligible to receive financial benefits for their time as players.
“Although long overdue, it is gratifying that these former players who meant so much to our game will finally receive a retirement benefit to help them through their senior years,” said MLBPA Executive Director Tony Clark in a press release announcing the program. “This is another example of players using their collective voice to bring about progress.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE@MLB AND @MLBPA ANNOUNCE EXPANSION OF FINANCIAL PROGRAMS TO SUPPORT LIVING NEGRO LEAGUES PLAYERS
Benefits Extended to Alumni who Played in Fewer Than
Four Seasons in the Negro Leagueshttps://t.co/x8yoXDovLS pic.twitter.com/BzB8L43FYV— MLBPA Communications (@MLBPA_News) May 22, 2024
