But, oh man, while fully committed stopping the erosion of Black players in baseball, their patience certainly is being tested. Major League Baseball is celebrating Jackie Robinson Day around ...

For baseball fans, the popularity of the game overshadows a more disturbing trend: the number of American-born Black players in MLB is at a historic low of 6 percent, despite many efforts to ...

It's often said that Jackie Robinson opened the door for Black baseball players to enter the majors. But that was just the FIRST door. Turns out, a lot of doors stood between Black players and ...

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, but he wasn’t the first Black player in major league baseball. More than 60 years before Robinson hit the field with the Dodgers, there was Bud Fowler ...

But for the first time since 1950, shortly after Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier, there project to be no U.S.-born Black players in this World Series. Zero.

Today, let’s honor the achievements of famous Black baseball players and the valuable contributions these home run heroes made on and off the field. Until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in ...

Baseball hasn’t gone the way of the eight-track tape, but it is rarely the first choice of the best Black athletes the way it was three decades ago, when Black players made up nearly one-fifth ...

Of the many Black athletes who’ve made their mark on the sport, here are six baseball players whose legacy continues to shape ...

Five Black players start for St. John Bosco, which plays for the Southern Section Division 1 championship on Friday night.

Black and brown athletes played there when Major League Baseball (MLB) did not allow them to do so alongside white players. Visiting legends like Josh Gibson, often called the “Black Babe Ruth ...

Black men were involved in the growth of professional baseball in the mid-1800s, with many of them playing at an elite level compared with their white peers. Those players didn’t see success due ...