The book, “Play Harder: The Triumph of Black Baseball in America,” is full of the historic photos and anecdotes you would ...

The diversity of MLB rosters is as strong as ever, and the effects of the league’s efforts to improve its percentage of Black players at the highest level are making an impact. Those are the takeaways ...

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 ... 1993 — Andre Dawson becomes the 25th player to hit 400 home runs as the Boston Red Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 4-3. 1997 ...

“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 ...

PHOENIX — It’s Jackie Robinson Day on Tuesday, with every player wearing No. 42 ... Yankees and Washington Nationals lead baseball with four African-Americans on their team.

Sunday afternoons saw families gather under the sun, cheering on players in sharp uniforms ... dedicated to preserving and celebrating African American baseball history. Located in the heart ...

He became the first African American baseball player in major league history. 15. Jackie Robinson was 1947's Rookie of the Year. He also won Rookie of the Year in 1947 with a batting average of ...

Born in Cairo, Georgia, Jackie Robinson transformed professional sports in 1947 by becoming the first African American player in Major League Baseball. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian ...