As we peruse the newly published data that can colloquially be considered “Version 2.0” of MLB’s official Negro Leagues records, let’s heed the words and wisdom of Larry Lester. For more than 30 years ...

Nicknamed “baseball’s most hoppinest team” by the local newspaper coverage at the time, the Fredericksburg Frogs were one of the Chesapeake Bay area’s more successful Negro League teams in the 1920s, ...

The Nashville Stars, a potential Major League Baseball expansion franchise that would be located in the Music City, has ...

Many of the exhibits and placards show the impact on teams like Tucson sees in the Mexican Baseball Fiesta. “Our game is a ...

While the legacy of Negro League Baseball has often been highlighted, the equally compelling narrative of Negro League ...

It’s called “pitch for the future.” The next chapter of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, as president of the museum Bob ...

so the team owners established the Negro National League. Under Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams, including the Chicago Giants, the Detroit Stars, the Kansas City ...

Major League Baseball then did not allow Black ... He was 6-foot-4 and 290 pounds and eventually played for a handful of Negro Leagues teams between 1910 and 1932. “Someone gave me a baseball ...

More than a century ago, two all-Black hotel teams, including one for The Breakers, competed in Palm Beach and beyond.

The Negro Leagues had profitable teams and great players. They also had to overcome the barriers of racism. The League makes it clear that integration in baseball might have happened earlier if ...

Once again this season, we'll be honoring the Bull City's Negro League teams by playing as the Durham Black Sox on Thursday, June 12. On this day in 1920, Negro Leagues baseball was born.