During his career, Eddie G.G. Burton barnstormed across the country with such all-stars as Satchel Paige, Minnie Miñoso and ...
Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.
Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...
Big plans are underway to enhance the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Two years after a $25 million expansion plan was ...
On June 12 of this upcoming season, the Durham Bulls will play a game as the Durham Black Sox. The Bulls are the Triple-A affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays and th ...
What prompted Steve to share it with me was its cover, the only periodical known to have featured Josh Gibson, the premier ...
Gibson, 22, would hit another 14 home runs that year. But none of them was in Major League Baseball. Gibson was a star of the ...
In addition to its partnership with the Kansas City Royals to offer free admission during Black History Month, the Negro ...
Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...
From the rodeo to baseball. Historian and author Phil Dixon—who also co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas ...
The museum opened in the 1990s as a single office space. Legends like the great late Buck O’Neil took turns paying rent out of pocket.
If Manny Ramirez and Roger Clemens were the only new legends coming to MLB The Show 25, most fans would be pretty satisfied.