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.

The book, “Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” is full of the historic photos and anecdotes you would expect to find in a coffee table book, but it also delves into some of the ...

Baseball pioneer or baseball footnote? When he trotted out to first base at Messer Street Grounds in Providence, White may have been the only person who knew that a black man was playing in the ...

So for a Black boy to pursue baseball, he must live in a town where baseball is prominent, often a predominantly white town. Or he must love the game—played more and more by people who don’t ...

Ask anyone who the original baseball great is and they’ll tell you the same name: Babe Ruth. A seven-time World Series champion with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, and a 12-time ...

the unlikeliest of baseball games ... Klux Klan swapped their white robes for baseball uniforms, took the field at Island Park Stadium, and squared off against the all-black Monrovians.

Although the 1919 Black ... unique event, baseball history indicates that throwing games likely happened a lot more than once. In the 1919 scandal, eight members of the Chicago White Sox were ...

Where Are All the Black Baseball Players? 3 socioeconomic reasons for the declining percentage of black players in MLB. Where Are All the Black Baseball Players? This year is the 70th anniversary ...

Black history and accomplishments are celebrated all throughout February for Black History Month. That includes the celebration of Jackie Robinson, who famously broke Major League Baseball's color ...