April 15 is Jackie Robinson Day, marking the date he broke baseball's color barrier. But the number of African Americans ...

Still, only ten African-Americans have followed directly in Ashford’s footsteps, and it wasn’t until this past February that Major League Baseball hired its first black umpire crew chief ...

Today in Sports, April 15 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in U.S. major league baseball ...

Starting at age 7, Nigerian immigrant Obie Sanni found baseball through another family, one in which proud African-American men pass down the love of baseball like an heirloom.

Twenty-eight years later, on April 15, 1947, he broke the baseball color line and became the first African American to play on a major sports team. Here are 42 facts to celebrate the legendary ...

The diversity of MLB rosters is as strong as ever, and the effects of the league’s efforts to improve its percentage of Black ...

Covenant Health Park, a joint venture by the Smokies, City of Knoxville, and Knox County, was built with the intention to ...

1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball. 1952 — The Detroit Red Wings beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-0 to capture the Stanley Cup. The Red Wings ...