Black to the Bigs examines the nation's favorite pastime. Black to the Bigs examines the nation's favorite pastime as the ...

The book, "Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America," is full of the historic photos and anecdotes you would expect to find in a coffee table book, but it also delves into some of the ...

On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon ...

Phoenix is the eighth team in NBA history to win a series after trailing 3-1 with a 121-90 victory over Los Angeles Lakers in Game 7 of its Western Conference opening-round series. Johan Franzen ...

1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball. 1952 — The ... South African Gary Player wins his third event title by 2 strokes.

On this day i.e., April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson was the first African-American baseball player to break the colour line and play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the MLB in the modern-day era.

1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball. 1952 — The Detroit Red Wings ... South African Gary Player wins his third event title by 2 strokes. 1991 — ...

“The younger African-American kids kind of reject baseball because they don’t market it like they do basketball,” Darryl Strawberry said, “Basketball markets their players, they market ...

When I was 7 years old, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play in the major leagues. He was truly one of the game’s greatest players. He could hit ...