KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, the world’s only national museum dedicated to the history of African-American baseball and its role in the Civil Rights Movement, announced Tuesday its 2025 Hall of Fame inductees.

Dusty Baker , Cito Gaston , Willie Randolph , and Jerry Manuel will make up the 2025 Hall of Game Class, with Tony Reagins receiving the inaugural JL Wilkinson Innovator Award .

J.L. Wilkinson was the only white owner of the original eight teams when the Negro Leagues were established in 1920, including the Kansas City Monarchs. He was also affectionately known as the pioneer of night baseball.

The men being inducted are among baseball’s greatest Black managers, never afforded the opportunity to transition into the Major Leagues.

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