Editing Negro league baseball (section)

==2008 Major League Baseball draft==
{{Main|2008 Major League Baseball draft#Negro Leagues Special Draft}}
On June 5, 2008, [[Major League Baseball]] held a special draft of the surviving Negro league players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race. The idea of the special draft was conceived by Hall of Famer [[Dave Winfield]].<ref>Tim Brown, [https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-winfield060408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns "Winfield's Brainchild Thrills Negro Leaguers"], Yahoo! Sports, June 4, 2008</ref> Each major league team drafted one player from the Negro leagues. [[Neale Henderson|Bobo Henderson]], [[Joe B. Scott]], [[Mule Miles]], [[William Bell Jr. (baseball)|Lefty Bell]], [[James Moore (baseball)|James "Red" Moore]], [[Mack Pride|Mack "The Knife" Pride]] and his brother [[Charley Pride]] (who went on to a legendary career in [[country music]]) were among the players selected. Also drafted, by the [[New York Yankees]], was [[Emilio Navarro]], who, at 102 years of age at the time of the draft, was believed to be the oldest living professional ballplayer.