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

ESPN’s Michael Wilbon and Wendell Smith, who helped Jackie Robinson crack into Major League Baseball, are among those to be honored Saturday at North Carolina A&T in Greensboro.

Boston Marathon won for second straight year by Canadian Jim Caffrey. 1907 — Boston Marathon won by Canadian Tom Longboat. 1927 — Yankees slugger Babe Ruth hits MLB record 60 HRs is ...

1947 — Jackie Robinson became the first black player of the 20th century to sign a major league contract. Robinson agreed a one-year deal with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

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

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

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

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.

From Atwater Village to Jurupa Valley to San Diego, watching my son play the most American game has taught me a most American ...

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 ...

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

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 ...