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

While Jackie Robinson is often celebrated as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, history tells a different story.

Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...

Spring training is underway for Chicago's baseball teams, both of which have played significant roles in the history of ...

Just 24-years old and the only woman on the full-time MLB beat at the time, Ludtke won.

During his career, Eddie G.G. Burton barnstormed across the country with such all-stars as Satchel Paige, Minnie Miñoso and Josh Gibson.

Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in 1948.

Angelou was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist with a colorful and troubling past highlighted in her most famous autobiography ... the first Black player selected ...

PHOTO COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES Jon Winkler on Feb 10, 2025 Black ... players and the community’s resilience during the Jim Crow era. It’s a timely topic to revisit since Major League ...

THOMASVILLE- Historic footage from a baseball game played at Thomasville ... is the earliest known footage of organized Black baseball in existence. Visitors to Pebble Hill Plantation may now ...

Cayla Withers is a Southern Black American woman of faith and an aerospace engineering student at Stanford University who is following a beautiful legacy of Black American women engineers from the ...