In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
As part of Black History Month, we spoke to members of our front office about what Black excellence means to them and how ...
While Jackie Robinson is often celebrated as the first Black player in Major League Baseball, history tells a different story.
Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...
Jim Becker, a long time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for ...
When one of the couple grows up in Kansas a Chiefs fan, and the other in South Jersey an Eagles fan, one would expect the ...
Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots ...
The can-do work ethic of the firm's northeast divisional president took him across the country multiple times — and to the ...
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.
First at Fort Defiance and now at Wilson Memorial, Jackie Bryan has made a mark on the high school basketball game in the Shenandoah Valley.
Jackie Bryan honored for her 300th high school coaching win ... but didn't want to draw attention to it because it was the same night that her senior, CC Robinson, reached 1,000 rebounds for her ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.