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

1985 — Marvin Hagler retains his world middleweight title by stopping Tommas Hearns in the third round at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Both slug it out with reckless abandon for eight minutes, which ...

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

Bailey was born in Newport News, Va. in 1917. In the 1930s, she moved to North Philadelphia’s 1946 N. 23rd Street — a blue ...

Mayberry Park was once the home to the Greenville Spinners, an all-African American baseball team from the 1920s, according to the city, It was originally created as a space for African American ...

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.

As the Cleveland Guardians play their 2025 home opener, April 8 marks 50 years since Frank Robinson debuted as MLB's first Black manager.

The ball clubs have departed their springtime nests, pennant hopes are flowering like daffodils, the ancient game is springing to life again. For even the lowliest teams ...

I’ll never leave this city," said former NY Yankee and Baseball Hall of Fame member CC Sabathia. "It’s the best decision I ever made in my life.'' ...

But the Courier’s historical significance goes beyond baseball. Its fabled “Double-V” campaign, calling for victory in World War II abroad and in the struggle for equal rights for African Americans at ...

The spring of 1982 turned scary for Patrick Stewart. Yet, a traumatic incident and his gradual recovery also led to Stewart discovering an ancestor’s niche in baseball history. That’s the nutshell ...