Baseball broadcasts and equipment are scarce ... While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent to less than 8 percent, hardly any have come from the African ...

The Suffolk and the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force present the second installment of “Black History On Screen.” ...

Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

They were the first African-American baseball players to play in Japan. Mackey and the group showcased their skills and became quite popular with the fans and local Japanese figures. They were ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.

Obviously, when you have somebody like (legendary K-State head baseball coach) Coach Dave Baker, who was the first (African American baseball coach in ... when you connect it you have to connect it to ...

When we contemplate the past, quite often some things are particularly hard for us to fathom or even understand. When one ...

Born in Calvert, Texas to an American Methodist Episcopal minister and his wife in 1879, Foster became a baseball star, and as a young man gained the reputation as one of the hardest throwing pitchers ...

This week, NY Waterway christened a new 500-seat passenger ferry as the "Jackie Robinson," after the first African-American baseball player to join the major leagues (and arguably New York’s ...