Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

Spring training is underway for Chicago's baseball teams, both of which have played significant roles in the history of ...

Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...

BUZZ MAGAZINE The Negro Leagues have only recently received their due in baseball history, as their story, in a time when ...

Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots of Luling, dreaming of making it big.” ...

Marvin Robinson II. (Grace Hills/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — A House committee has advanced legislation to dedicate a portion of highway in Kansas City, Kansas, near the Quindaro Ruins to former Rep.

Long overdue, the Jackie Robinson Museum opened in Manhattan in 2022 to honor ... who played locally with the Kansas City Monarchs. It was said that these games were so popular that Black churches ...

There is also a stadium in Daytona Beach, Florida named after him, Jackie Robinson Ballpark. Robinson played in the city during spring training in 1946 with the Montreal Royals. Today, the stadium ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked on a Hall-of-Fame MLB career, he was a four-sport star at UCLA ...

both part of the greater Kansas City metro area. So far, 67 "active" TB infections and 79 "latent," or "inactive" infections have been linked to the outbreak. "This outbreak is still ongoing ...

A wave of tuberculosis cases hitting the Kansas City, Kansas, metro area has caused dozens of illnesses and at least two deaths, according to the state health department. Cases related to the ...