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, ...

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 ...

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

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

Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.

Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and ... huge on minorities playing baseball. We have a lot of Black players playing ...

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 ...

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

That sad chapter in our history has been corrected, and while Jackie Robinson is ... Foster became a baseball star, and as a young man gained the reputation as one of the hardest throwing pitchers in ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Jim Becker, a world-traveling journalist who covered Jackie Robinson’s big-league baseball debut ... they didn’t want to play with a Black man. But the stadium crowd was ...