Shut out by the white establishment, Black players formed their own leagues. During that time, Black baseball stars played their White counterparts at least 438 times in offseason exhibition games.

Five days later, eight of the team's former players banned in the "Black Sox" scandal were posthumously reinstated from their ...

For a team on a winding path to nowhere and lacking talent or a plan to acquire it, Colorado seems destined to be MLB’s ...

Baseball and movies have been teammates for over a hundred years. One's played with bats and gloves, the other with cameras ...

Fowler, whom he calls “a baseball man, through and through,” played on more white teams with more white players than any other Black player of the era. He played baseball wherever he went.

(National Baseball Hall of Fame and ... echoes the long-held concept within the Black community of having to work twice as hard to get half as much as White people. In this instance, playing ...

Along with Foster, White and Hill are other baseball Hall-of-Famers who became renowned for Negro Leagues play. By 1910, entire professional black teams from the Northeast and Midwest would ...

“I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a white sport. I feel like white people criticize everything that a black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds,” he told ...

The event, held at Harry Caray’s Tavern on Navy Pier, involved a baseball ... White Sox mascot Southpaw touch a case containing a baseball from the infamous 1919 World Series, known for the ...

A half-dozen Black hotel players are among 351 inductees of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. They played in Palm Beach as part of the Florida Hotel League, also known as the Coconut League.