CNN US | Negro League baseball players earn spots in the National Baseball Hall of Fame

(CNN) – Negro League baseball players Buck O’Neil and Bud Fowler were elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

They were two of seven Negro League and pre-Negro League players who were being considered Sunday for induction into the Hall of Fame. O’Neil and Fowler join four other candidates — Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso and Tony Oliva — as part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

The six players will officially be inducted in Cooperstown, New York, on July 24, 2022, according to the Hall of Fame website.  –read more–