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 ...

Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

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

Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...

BUZZ MAGAZINE The Negro Leagues have only recently received their due in baseball history, as their story, in a time when ...

The Washington, D.C., Evening Star reported Monday, Jan. 1, 1940, that “merry crowds” had gathered in the nation’s capital to ...

In a career that dates back to the 1970s, Ivan Nahem has written and performed music that defies convention. The vocalist and ...

Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots of Luling, dreaming of making it big.” ...

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

But none of them was in Major League Baseball. Gibson was a star of the Negro Leagues ... the late 1800s through the 20th ...