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.

Baseball, Jones said, is not the black-dominated world ... Jones said baseball is "a white man's game." Illustration by Brian Stauffer If the current pattern of behavior toward the truth applies ...

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 ...

These men and plenty of other Black pioneers played organized professional baseball in the 1880s and 1890s, before white team owners and managers segregated the game. This month, we are watching ...

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.

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 ...