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In 2020, Major League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: [2] Negro National League I (NNL I) (1920–1931) Eastern Colored League (ECL) (1923–1928) American Negro League (ANL) (1929) East–West League (EWL) (1932) Negro Southern League (NSL) (1932) Negro National League II (NNL II) (1933 ...
Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. was born on October 20, 1971, in Long Beach, California, to Beverly Tate (1951–2021) and Vernell Varnado. [16] [17] Varnado, who was a Vietnam War veteran, singer, and mail carrier, left the family only three months after Snoop Dogg's birth, and thus he was named after his stepfather, Calvin Cordozar Broadus Sr. (1948–1984).
Death Row Records is an American record label that was founded in 1991 by The D.O.C., Dr. Dre, Suge Knight, and Dick Griffey. [8] The label became a sensation by releasing multi-platinum hip-hop albums by West Coast-based artists such as Dr. Dre (The Chronic), Snoop Dogg and 2Pac (All Eyez on Me) during the 1990s.
The 1958 Major League Baseball season began to turn Major League Baseball into a nationwide league. Walter O'Malley, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers and "perhaps the most influential owner of baseball's early expansion era," [69] moved his team to Los Angeles, marking the first major league franchise on the West Coast. [70]
The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason. First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
American rapper Snoop Dogg has released 20 studio albums, 5 collaborative albums, 4 soundtrack albums, 17 compilation albums, 1 video album, 3 extended plays (EP), 19 solo mixtapes, and 7 collaborative mixtapes.
The New York Yankees have the highest all-time regular season win–loss percentage (.569) in Major League Baseball history. Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization, which consists of a total of 30 teams—15 teams in the National League (NL) and 15 in the American League (AL). The NL and AL were formed in 1876 and ...
Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball's color barrier and the first black player in the American League.