From 1896 through 1946, no Black players were allowed to compete in the major leagues. Shut out by the white establishment ... buy for $200,000. He can hit the ball a mile. He catches the ball ...

The teams had only white players ... But he hit enough for fans to call him “the black Babe Ruth.” Some say Oscar Charleston may have been the greatest baseball player of all time.

At a time when Major League Baseball was still a decade from integration, Louis’ victory in Chicago’s Comiskey Park was a triumph for black America ... 1879, White got a hit, scored a run ...

Imagine the players' trading taunts; the slice of a bat through the warm, humid air; the smack of a ball ... But baseball won him affection from white and Black neighbors alike.

Andrew “Rube” Foster is known as “the Father of Black Baseball ... giving up a base hit. The Waco newspaper, with understandable pride, called him, “the best ball player and pitcher ...

Robinson and other great players. After Donaldson’s famed pitching arm wore out, he became one of the first Black scouts for Major League Baseball, working for the Chicago White Sox, where he ...

February is Black ... we have baseball in Syracuse the coming season.” Although those fears were overblown, the club needed to bolster its roster. It looked south, signing seven new players ...