Sam Lacy is in the Baseball Hall of Fame for his work covering the sports beat for the AFRO American Newspapers. Lacy is revered for recording the plight of Black athletes– both known and ...

The Negro leagues were formed by baseball’s hard color line. Black players and teams were rejected by the official amateur baseball network in 1867, and then at the professional level in 1876.

In 1975, Major League Baseball had 17 black All-Stars. Tuesday's All-Star Game will feature just nine "American-born" black players. Meanwhile, the total number of black major league players has ...

Maybe you don’t want to rest on your laurels, though. Or maybe you are a baseball player from a bygone era who didn’t sign nine-figure contracts. You might get into acting. Here are some ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Explore the journey of Black baseball players during decades of exclusion from Major League Baseball, culminating in ...

Major League Baseball continues to make sure no one who cares about the game ever forgets Jackie Robinson and his legacy. Robinson, the first Black player in the major leagues when he debuted for ...

WLRN Public Television’s latest one-hour documentary Never Drop the Ball takes audiences on an extraordinary journey to show how black baseball players built a brand of baseball out of ...

Nightengale has been covering baseball since 1986 and frequently writes about race, particularly focusing on the dearth of African-Americans in the sport (Black players made up just 8.4 per cent ...

Mark Grace net worth and career earnings: Mark Grace is a former professional baseball player and coach who has a net worth of $20 million. Mark Grace played in MLB from 1988 to 2003, mostly with ...

Burnley manager Vincent Kompany and Nottingham Forest manager Nuno are the only two black Premier League managers Non-black players were 50% more likely to get into management than black players ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - Young Black baseball players will have their opportunity to shine during the inaugural Flyball Jubilee. The three-day event is hosted by the Player’s Alliance ...

2月15日－3月21日 国务院召开全国计划工作会议，拟定了1970年国民经济计划，并着手研究第四个五年计划纲要（草案）。会议提出了“以阶级斗争为纲、狠抓战备，促进国民经济的新飞跃”的口号，要求“集中力量建设大三线战略后方”。