In 1990, Buck O’Neil founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City near 18th & Vine, a once-vibrant neighborhood synonymous with nightlife during the Jazz age. The museum consisted of ...

Founded in 1920, the Negro Leagues gave generations of talented athletes a platform to showcase their abilities and foster economic and social institutions within Black communities. In 2000 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — May 2, 2025, is the first day Michigan is celebrating Negro Leagues Day after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill in June 2024 to uplift the historic accomplishments ...

to discuss plans for a professional Black baseball league. To their surprise, Foster came in with the papers, signaling that the Negro National League (NNL) was official. In the inaugural NNL game ...

Historians call Lloyd one of the Negro Leagues’ greatest shortstops-turned-coaches, but Jordan remembers him for his camaraderie toward students as a janitor in Atlantic City’s school district.

His father was a pitcher for the Southern division of the Negro Leagues — leagues for Black players from the 1920s through the ’40s, when segregation prevented them from playing in the majors.

Baseball is the world’s game as much as it’s ever been. And today, April 15, every MLB player will wear No. 42 in honor of Jackie Robinson. It only took, oh, 100-plus years of changes ...

Items: New York (14% Negro). Of the prisoners confined in houses of detention last year to await court disposition of their cases, 44% of the males and 65% of the females were Negroes. Chicago (15 ...

Author Frank Deford writes in our 101 Objects Special Issue: Negro baseball leagues allowed African-Americans the chance to play the national pastime for pay (if not for much). The heyday of the ...

Harold (Buster) Hair, a Jacksonville sports pioneer who competed in baseball's Negro Leagues and later coached legions of aspiring athletes across the First Coast, died April 21 in Atlanta at age 92.

Kate Schweitzer typically gets better as she gets deeper into a game. And as her first season as Commack’s starting pitcher has progressed, so has her pitching. The junior struck out 11 and ...