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

Major League Baseball celebrates the 69th anniversary Friday of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, and while the number of African-American players on teams remain near historic low ...

Black to the Bigs examines the nation's favorite pastime as the amount of African American professional baseball players dwindles. Black to the Bigs examines the nation's favorite pastime as the ...

an annual event that brought 80 aspiring African American baseball players to Arizona over January’s Martin Luther King Jr. weekend to receive on- and off-field coaching from former players ...

He was fired from the Orioles during the 1991 season—the year Major League Baseball had the highest percentage of African American players in the league, 18% of all players. The following season, Cito ...

Shaheed Rucker’s ”The Breakfast of (our) Champions” transforms Wheaties boxes to center Negro leagues baseball players. His work is on display at the African American Museum in Philadelphia. (Emma Lee ...

Before that, in the early 1920s, Andrew “Rube” Foster, a former player, manager, and owner for the Chicago American Giants, organized African American baseball, leading to the formation of ...

It is often overlooked that, for the last decade or so of his career, he was deeply respected by almost all African American baseball players because of his ability and his role as an early ...

"These sports teams helped to build and reinforce important community institutions that allowed African American residents ... a star baseball player at South Bend Central High School in the ...

Like many high school baseball players, Price’s dream is to become a major leaguer. African American participation in the professional ranks of basketball and football is high. According to ...