12.17.2020
KidNuz: News for Kids
Starglow Media
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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning and welcome the kid news. I'm Tori. Today is Thursday, December 17th, |
| 0:06.2 | 2020 and we begin with America's pastime determined to write a historical |
| 0:12.4 | wrong. |
| 0:13.2 | Calling it long overdue, Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced yesterday |
| 0:18.0 | that Baseball's Negro League will now get major league status. |
| 0:22.4 | In all, 3,400 black athletes took the field |
| 0:26.2 | between 1920 and 1948. |
| 0:28.9 | None of them allowed into the big leagues until Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. |
| 0:33.7 | The record keeping wasn't great at the time, but today's number crunchers are |
| 0:38.4 | confident they'll be able to pull enough information from the box scores of those who played to possibly break some existing |
| 0:46.2 | big league records. |
| 0:47.8 | Case in point, Josh Gibson. |
| 0:50.1 | The Negro League legend may be the greatest power hitter of all time, |
| 0:54.4 | launching between 800 and 1,000 home runs. |
| 0:58.2 | Barry Bonds currently holds the home run record with 762. |
| 1:05.4 | She freely admits she has too much money and that's why she's giving a bunch of it away. |
| 1:11.6 | Just in the past four months, Mackenzie Scott, the former wife of |
| 1:15.2 | Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, has donated nearly 4.2 billion dollars of her |
| 1:21.4 | personal fortune. |
| 1:22.8 | On the receiving end, |
| 1:24.1 | 384 different organizations from food banks to colleges. |
| 1:29.2 | Ms. Scott says she picked up the pace of her giving |
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