MARGATE, Fla. – Michael Coker, founder and executive director of Black College Championships LLC and founder of the Black College World Series as well as lead contemporary reporter for the Black ...

Cheers erupted when he sprang to his feet, flipped the baseball, shed the glove off his right hand, caught the ball again and tossed it to the infield in one seamless motion. Black fans already knew ...

Bettmann / Getty Images As the first black umpire in Major League Baseball, Emmett Ashford encountered plenty of hostility. The pitcher Jim Bouton documented Ashford’s difficulties in Ball Four ...