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

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 ...

Seventy-eight years ago, on April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson made his Major League Baseball debut and integrated Major League ...

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 ...

Major League Baseball officially began the process of integrating statistics accumulated by players who played in the Negro Leagues (1920-1948) into the official MLB record books. Commissioner Rob ...

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 ...

"(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 ...

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 ...

Torpedo bats are all the rage around Major League Baseball this week, but are they here to stay? The Yankees’ power display ...