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FILE - This is a 2018 file photo showing Gift Ngoepe of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball team. Ngoepe had quite the busy offseason. After becoming the first African-born player to reach the major leagues last season, Ngoepe was traded from Pittsburgh to Toronto and spent almost three months back home in South Africa promoting the sport. &quot;Just trying to make the sport a little bigger, make more people interested and playing so we have a bigger population for baseball,&quot; Ngoepe told The Associated Press on Friday, March 8, 2018. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Ngoepe had busy offseason promoting baseball in South Africa

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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2017 file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates' Gift Ngoepe walks off the field after a workout at baseball spring training in Bradenton, Fla. Ngoepe made history on April 26 when he became the first African to play Major League Baseball. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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