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” ...

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 ...

Gibson was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in ... “It is an absolute watershed moment for both Black baseball and Negro League history.” Kendrick continued, “You cannot ...

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 ...