TheCollector on MSN2d
When Did Baseball’s Negro Leagues Occur?
America regularly enforced segregation, especially after the American Civil War. This also included baseball, the rapidly ...
Remembering the Giants, Knoxville's sensational championship baseball club a century ago
The Knoxville Smokies are honoring the legacy of the Giants, the city's Negro League team that won a championship in 1920.
Negro League pitcher Frank Wickware honored at Schenectady gravesite by baseball historian
At Wickware’s headstone in Vale Cemetery, Dixon held a ceremony to commemorate the late player, who was nicknamed “Red Ant” ...
Smithsonian Magazine11y
A Long Toss Back to the Heyday of Negro League Baseball
Author Frank Deford writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Negro baseball leagues allowed African-Americans the chance to play the national pastime ... the Negro League All-Star Game drew ...
Space Coast Daily1d
Major League Baseball Celebrates ‘Jackie Robinson Day’ April 15, Broke Colorline in 1947
Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League Baseball.
RotoBaller on MSN10mon
Who Is The New Leader in Career Batting Average After Negro League Stat Integration?
Major League Baseball officially began the process of integrating statistics accumulated by players who played in the Negro ...
KCUR 89.3 FM15d
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum plans $30 million development project on The Paseo
"(The museum) started in a one room office (and was later) recognized as America's National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum after we built our current home," Kendrick said. "Now, of ...
Nebraska TV8d
Barnstormin' with the Best
"You're talking about literally thousands of people would come to see the Kansas City Monarchs, it's the best baseball show ...