Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.
The Schenectady NAACP celebrated Black History Month on Saturday by honoring the Mohawk Giants, a Black baseball team that ...
More than a century ago, two all-Black hotel teams, including one for The Breakers, competed in Palm Beach and beyond.
Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...
Big plans are underway to enhance the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Two years after a $25 million expansion plan was ...
Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...
Projects on the fight to give women the right to vote, the formation of baseball’s Negro National League and how a tragic ...
Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...
The Jersey Shore Wave, the newest edition to the Women's National Football Conference, will play home games at historic ...
The connective tissue of baseball extends so far and touches to many individuals. Grant, who sang the anthem for Robinson’s ...
Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots of Luling, dreaming of making it big.” ...
It’s that time of year again when Cleveland’s baseball team gets no respect. Spring training games are underway, which means ...