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 ...

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 ...

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

The SIAC will host this year’s baseball tournament and football media day at Luther Williams Field and the Tubman African ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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.

“My childhood was a little different in baseball and who I admired, and to watch African American players really excel in our sport and be given that opportunity rightfully so … I wouldn’t ...

Doby was the first African-American player in the ... his late grandfather what "an amazing person'' and player Doby was during his standout MLB career.