The book, “Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” is full of the historic photos and anecdotes you would ...

Clifton, from Chicago, had played minor league baseball and 16-inch softball ... (By the way, Lloyd technically was the NBA’s first Black player, his Capitols opening the 1950-51 season at ...

Bob Kendrick on the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's importance as a civil rights institution and how it preserves a ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues on Tuesday, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the ...

It tells the Negro Leagues’ history, introduces Black and Latino players who went on to integrate baseball and pays special tribute to Johnny Ritchey, the Padres’ first Black player.

being a Black baseball player.” Wood, a Maryland native, is juggling a handful of responsibilities in his first full season with the Washington Nationals. He’s trying to be consistent at the ...

Pete Rose, one of baseball’s greatest baseball players who was banned from the sport for life in 1989, will finally be ...

The all-time hit king and Jackson -- both longtime baseball pariahs stained by gambling, seen by MLB as the game's mortal sin ...

Jackie Robinson’s legacy is being celebrated around the major leagues, with the day named for the first Black baseball player of the modern era and marking the 78th anniversary of his debut for ...