When I was 7 years old, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play in the major leagues. He was truly one of the game’s greatest players. He could hit ...

A Day of Reflection and Inspiration. Introduction. 78 years ago, Jackie Robinson made history by becoming the first African American to b ...

Even before the current attack on diversity, major-league clubs have been slow to increase minority representation.

The history of Graniteville's Black community is being documented through a collaboration between a third-generation ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here as Major League Baseball celebrates ...

Darryl Strawberry says Major League Baseball needs to focus on developing and marketing the game within the inner cities in ...

At a time when the Trump administration is ordering a review of how history is depicted in the Smithsonian Institution, ...

Born in Cairo, Georgia, Jackie Robinson transformed professional sports in 1947 by becoming the first African American player in Major League Baseball. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian ...

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 ...

Prior to the Black Legacy Game at Citi Field, former Mets legend Darryl Strawberry spoke about Major League Baseball ...