America regularly enforced segregation, especially after the American Civil War. This also included baseball, the rapidly ...

At Wickware’s headstone in Vale Cemetery, Dixon held a ceremony to commemorate the late player, who was nicknamed “Red Ant” ...

the Negro National League was formed by Black businessmen including Rube Foster, dubbed the father of Black baseball. Shortly after, the Negro Southern League was founded in Atlanta. William ...

The Knoxville Smokies are honoring the legacy of the Giants, the city's Negro League team that won a championship in 1920.

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 ...

The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” by Gerald Early, comes at a time when the history of Black baseball has become ...

Major League Baseball officially began the process of integrating statistics accumulated by players who played in the Negro ...

and tossed around 250 shutouts in over 2,000 games of baseball. But at his core, Paige was a showman. He loved the spotlight and helped the National Negro League grow in popularity across the ...

With another season of major league and minor league baseball upon us, it seems like the time is ripe to rank the 20 (or so) greatest major league achievements of former Spokane minor league players ...

"(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 ...

(1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951 ... of American History Willie Mays National Museum of American History Willie Mays ...