By Justice B. Hill / MLB.com
Dave Winfield doesn't want credit for the idea, but he can hardly escape getting credit for it since everybody else says Winfield came up with it.
And the idea is one that people across baseball are praising.
Winfield proposed having a "ceremonial" draft on June 5 for surviving players from the Negro Leagues. The draft would be a way for Major League Baseball to connect its past with its present, he said.
"You would truly bring the past into the present," said Winfield, a Hall of Famer and vice president with the Padres. "You would change these people's lives. You would change baseball history -- American history.
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