Eight former Negro League stars, including Satchel Paige and Buck O’Neil, will be included in this year’s edition of the video game simulation.
“We plan to use MLB The Show as a gateway to expose new generations of baseball fans to these historic figures and their stories of triumph over adversity,” Ramone Russell, a product development communications and brand strategist for Sony San Diego Studio, the game’s creator,Sony San Diego Studio partnered with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and its president, Bob Kendrick, as well as the players’ families, to develop “Storylines.
“The story of the Negro Leagues is not an African American story,” Kendrick says in a video released Monday announcing the new game mode. “It is anAmerican story. It’s the kind of story that we as Americans have typically embraced, because it’s a story about pride, passion, perseverance, determination, the refusal to accept the notion that you’re unfit to do anything.”
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