Editing Rube Foster (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Rube Foster plaque HOF.jpg|right|thumb|Foster's plaque at the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum]]]]

In 1981, Foster was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He was the first representative of the Negro leagues elected as a pioneer or executive.

Around 1999, the City of Chicago included Foster in its Chicago Tribute series of historical markers around the city. A marker about Foster was erected at the corner of [[Pershing Road (Chicago)|Pershing Road]] (39th Street) and Wentworth Avenue, next to the [[Wentworth Gardens]] housing complex, at the location of [[South Side Park]], where Foster's Giants played until 1941.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Andrew 'Rube' Foster Historical Marker |url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=235191 |access-date=2025-01-27 |website=www.hmdb.org |language=en}}</ref>  The marker was still standing but faded and hard to read as of 2023.<ref name=":0" />

On December 30, 2009, the [[U.S. Postal Service]] announced that it planned to issue a pair of [[postage stamp]]s in June honoring Negro leagues Baseball.<ref>{{cite web | publisher=United States Postal Service | title=Postal News: Negro Leagues Baseball Stamp | date=December 30, 2009 | url=http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_118.htm#negro | access-date=January 5, 2010 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606082628/http://www.usps.com/communications/newsroom/2009/pr09_118.htm#negro | archive-date=June 6, 2011 }}</ref> On July 17, 2010, the Postal Service [[First day of issue|issued]] a se-tenant pair of 44-cent, first-class, U.S. [[Commemorative stamp|commemorative]] postage stamps, to honor the all-black professional baseball leagues that operated from 1920 to about 1960. One of the stamps depicts Foster, along with his name and the words "NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL". The stamps were formally issued at the [[Negro Leagues Baseball Museum]], during the celebration of the museum's twentieth anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|title=New stamps honors Negro Leagues Baseball|date=July 17, 2010|publisher=PRNewswire-USNewswire|work=affrodite.net|url=http://affrodite.net/2010/07/15/new-stamps-honors-negro-leagues-baseball/|access-date=2011-10-21}}</ref>

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum hosts the annual Andrew "Rube" Foster Lecture, in September.<ref name=EducPrograms/>

In 2021, Rube Foster was posthumously inducted into the [[Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagolandsportshalloffame.com/news/2021-class-to-include-baseball-great-and-pioneer-rube-foster|title = 2021 Class to Include Baseball Great and Pioneer "Rube" Foster}}</ref>

On November 10, 2021, the [[United States Mint]] announced the designs for the 2022 Negro Leagues Centennial Commemorative coins, with Foster featured on the $5 gold [[half eagle]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Langes |first1=Sarah |title=Commemorative coins honor Negro Leagues |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/negro-leagues-baseball-commemorative-coins |website=mlb.com |publisher=MLB Advanced Media, LP. |access-date=25 December 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gilkes |first1=Paul |title=Coins in 2022 honor Negro National League founding |url=https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/coins-in-2022-honor-negro-national-league-founding |website=coinworld.com |publisher=Amos Media Company |access-date=25 December 2021}}</ref>