MLB The Show’s celebration of Black baseball is the best thing in sports video games this year

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Thought this was a good article, seems like the Negro League for the new MLB has been a big hit which is dope.

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MLB The Show’s celebration of Black baseball is the best thing in sports video games this year

The heroes of the great Black baseball leagues get their long-overdue moment in the sun
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Sports occupy one of the more curious niches among video games. They're tremendous sellers, huge moneymakers, and yet they're so taken for granted that nobody really talks about them the way they do a Resident Evil rerelease or Bethesda Softworks' next RPG. But if you have an Xbox and a Game Pass subscription, at least, you really owe it to yourself to download and play MLB The Show 23's outstanding Negro Leagues Storylines mode. If you're not a sports fan, it will teach you a necessary part of American history. And if you are a sports fan, it will tell you something you don't know about the National Pastime.
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I say this as someone who considered himself educated on the history of segregated baseball, the times before Jackie Robinson kicked his toe into second base for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Storylines, the new historical re-creation mode that SIE San Diego Studio introduced for MLB The Show 23, begins with the eight stories of Black professional baseball players who were forbidden from the National and American Leagues by the tacitly understood gentlemen's agreement that preceded Robinson breaking the sport's color barrier in 1947.

Baseball fans have just celebrated the fifth World Baseball Classic and its champion, Japan. They've gotten to know dozens of stars from all nations and cultures and embraced their fandom as their own, because it elevates the sport as a whole. This interactive peek behind the shrouded, segregated major leagues supports the same ideal. I have long said that sports video games are at their best when they teach the player something they never knew about a game they have loved their whole life. Well, that is MLB The Show 23.
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