Long a sport in which celebrations of practically any sort would result in an up-and-in fastball, baseball has adapted to ...

about 600 current Major League Baseball players. They separated out 416 players born in the U.S. who are either black, white, or Latino. To construct a control group, they gathered data from the ...

Some called him the Black Babe Ruth; others called Babe Ruth the white Josh Gibson ... But none of them was in Major League Baseball. Gibson was a star of the Negro Leagues, a branch of American ...

(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer ... him on the radar as a potential pitching prospect. In the tight-knit Black baseball community in Atlanta, word of Church’s live arm quickly got back ...

For many, the sport’s history mostly acknowledges white-dominated leagues while the history of Black baseball is often forgotten. However, the history of Black baseball is just as extensive and ...

The event, held at Harry Caray’s Tavern on Navy Pier, involved a baseball ... White Sox mascot Southpaw touch a case containing a baseball from the infamous 1919 World Series, known for the ...

“Eddie” Day broke baseball’s color barrier as the only Black player on the all-white 1891 Reading Actives ... in 1898 when the all-Black Celeron, N.Y., Acme Colored Giants of the Iron ...

"I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds," he told The ...