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, ...

Spring training is underway for Chicago's baseball teams, both of which have played significant roles in the history of ...

(AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy) Jim Becker, a former Associated Press journalist, holds a painting depicting Jackie Robinson’s Major ...

"Spring training is the opportunity for families to unite," explained Traer Van Allen, general manager of the minor-league St ...

Baseball history changed forever with Jackie Robinson. Honored in McDonald's Faces of Black History 2025 live on the 360Wise.

Vanderbilt baseball will ... a gray uniform with black lettering. However, the white pinstripes are a new look that the program has not previously used. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...

When we contemplate the past, quite often some things are particularly hard for us to fathom or even understand. When one ...

Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...

That year marked the first time in our history that the Black ... the all-white Orangeburg High School. Robinson became a member of the junior varsity basketball team. He continued to play an ...

Baseball legend Jackie Robinson ... I don't even think I thought of Jackie as being black or white." Robinson joined Martin Luther King Jr. and more than 10,000 others for a march to the state ...

It had only been a day or so since Dave Sims had been officially named as the Yankees’ next radio voice, and amid a deluge of congratulatory phone calls and text messages sat an urgent request: you ...