On Saturday before a game against the Royals, Seattle Mariners shortstop J.P. Crawford made an incredibly meaningful donation to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.

As noted by Mariners television reporter Brad Adam, the M's leader donated a game- used Seattle Steelheads jersey to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

The Mariners wear Steelheads jerseys during each Sunday home game this season. The Steelheads were a Negro League team that played in Seattle for one season in 1946.

As the Mariners celebrate their 50th season this year, it's also appropriate to celebrate the 80-year anniversary of that Steelheads season, educating fans of all ages about the history of baseball in Seattle as a whole.

Back in February, we had Kedrick on the 'Refuse to Lose Territory' podcast to talk about what it meant to him to see the Mariners make the decision to wear these uniforms each Sunday home game.

"Man, it meant the world to me. I am so proud of what the Mariners have done in conjunction with their 50th anniversary and for them to every Sunday for their home games, on Sundays, to pay honor to a Negro Leagues team that was only in existence for a short period of time there in Seattle. But for them to embrace the fact that they should celebrate the heritage of this game, it means a great deal to me personally, as well as it means a lot to all of us here at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. And it's just another bridge to helping build greater understanding of the impact of the Negro Leagues and the far-reaching aspect of what Negro Leagues baseball represented.

You know, that West Coast Negro Leagues didn't last very long. Matter of fact, it only lasted a year. But it existed. And Seattle had the Steelheads, and that was in 1946, so we were getting closer to integration occurring in baseball. There was actually, by that time, a big push for integration. There were folks who were really pushing hard at Major League Baseball to examine its work practices to allow those Black and Brown players from Negro Leagues into its game.

But that West Coast League came along and you had a team in Portland and Oakland and San Francisco. And it had a lot of things that were forces pushing against it. Perhaps the biggest aspect of it was the fact that the Black population wasn't just significant enough to actually support it. So it only lasted a year, but it was a meaningful year.

And so for the Mariners to put that uniform on every Sunday for home games, and it is a gorgeous uniform, it's a gorgeous uniform, and on top of that, to announce this commitment to supporting Black baseball initiatives there in the Seattle area, baseball and softball, man, that was just so exciting. And so I was just thrilled when I heard the announcement."

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