America regularly enforced segregation, especially after the American Civil War. This also included baseball, the rapidly ...
The Knoxville Smokies are honoring the legacy of the Giants, the city's Negro League team that won a championship in 1920.
The ball clubs have departed their springtime nests, pennant hopes are flowering like daffodils, the ancient game is springing to life again. For even the lowliest teams ...
Many Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and ...
At Wickware’s headstone in Vale Cemetery, Dixon held a ceremony to commemorate the late player, who was nicknamed “Red Ant” ...
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 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 ...
Three Black women – Connie Morgan, Mamie “Peanut” Johnson and Toni Stone – did play in the otherwise male Negro ... National Organization for Women filed a lawsuit against Little League ...
A 2024 survey found women made up 39% of those who attended or watched Major League Baseball games, and franchises have taken ...
The National League sits just beneath the EFL League Two on the English football pyramid. It comprises three divisions and 72 teams, who are split equally between the headline Vanarama National League ...
The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” by Gerald Early, comes at a time when the history of Black baseball has become ...