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 ...

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 ...

Cam Curler is a Vermonter through and through. Oh sure, if you look at his Vermont State University Lyndon baseball roster you will see that he is casting a wider net and has players from far-flung ...

Jim Becker, a long-time journalist who had spent more than 40 years in journalism including a role as a national reporter for the Associated Press (AP), died at age 98 in Honolulu due to natural cause ...

Baseball fans on the Treasure Coast have something to celebrate! The beloved Jackie Robinson Celebration Game is making its comeback on Tuesday, April 15, ...

"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.

A little more than a century after Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Ga., Chipper Jones traveled to the rural southwest ...

Negro Leagues teams played each other exclusively, recording their own statistics, until Jackie Robinson broke the ... which ...

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