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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

Baseball was honoring Black players in a game one day after the ... for his World Series dramatics with the Yankees, praised white teammates including Manager John McNamara, Rollie Fingers ...

For six decades, baseball was segregated. White team owners followed unwritten rules, called the “gentlemen’s agreement,” under which they agreed to not sign Black players. Knoxville had ...