In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of ...
Major League Baseball’s embrace of the Negro Leagues is long overdue. The welcome mat into the record books has ...
NEW YORK -- Josh Gibson became Major League Baseball's career leader with a .372 batting average, surpassing Ty Cobb's ...
HOPE TO In the spring of 2024, MLB merged select records from the Negro Leagues into their own record books. This change acknowledged Josh Gibson as baseball’s all-time batting average leader ...
With a single stroke of his pen, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred rewrote a century of baseball history.
Books have been written about the players ... breaking color lines or making the transition from the Negro Leagues to Major League Baseball or inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Players shake hands following the fourth annual honorary Negro League exhibition, which was held at John Smith Field at Sacramento State on Sunday, Sept. 22. Marcus D. Smith Sacramento baseball ...