Historic All-Black Baseball Team Revived in Video Game

MLB The Show 22 calls Canadian ball players from the 1930s up to bat

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In 1934, the Chatham Coloured All-Stars made history by being the first-ever all-Black team to win an Ontario Baseball Association Championship. Though not many of us were alive to see it, we can now revisit this historic win through the video game MLB The Show 22, which now allows players to step onto the field as the All-Stars.

Born from a desire to preserve the vital history of the team, the “Chatham Plays On” collaboration with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) and Major League Baseball (MLB) invites players to utilize the team editor function in MLB The Show 22 to build the 13-player roster for themselves.

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