Articles related to "Negro Leagues"

The history of the Negro Leagues is even more interesting and complex than the origins of the Major Leagues.

Before Jackie Robinson and Hank Aaron played for professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, they honed their skills by competing in the Negro Baseball Leagues.

Cuba is the only Communist nation in the world where the national pastime is a Yankee sport: Baseball. The history of Cuban baseball is long and it is still been written.

April 15th 2007, marked the 60 year anniversary after Robinson's debut in the Major Leagues which was the beginning of an amazing career.

Andrew 'Rube' Foster was a legendary pitcher and a great businessman. He used his arm and his brains to build and maintain the first successful Negro League teams.

Kansas City is an historic place filled with interesting characters and artifacts...not to mention art, science and just plain fun.

Hank Aaron is known best for one thing: breaking Babe Ruth's long-standing all-time home run record and finishing his career with 755 home runs. But, he was so much more.

As baseball approaches the 60th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson's historic debut, the great man's career and life should be celebrated by all baseball fans.

Known for baseball and barbecue, Kansas City delivers also jazz, top-notch restaurants, arts, history, and nightlife, just as you would expect from any world-class city.

For 130 years, the historic Hatch Show Print company in Nashville has helped advertise Southern entertainers, sports teams and politicians in its unique, timeless way.

He did not have a chance to play in the Major League until he was in his forties, but Ole Satch was still able to throw with the best of them.

To any baseball fan, devotee or fanatic this is the mecca of America's "national pastime." The best part - even non baseball enthusiasts will love it!

Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series championship games seize the attention of American sports lovers.

Lou Boudreau's 1948 season was unique in baseball history. He batted and fielded his way to his league's MVP award and managed the Indians to the world championship.

A portion of the American population couldn't to be employed by major league baseball teams because their skin contained too much of the pigment melanin.

Fifty-five years before the first night baseball games were introduced to the major leagues in 1935, lighting was brought to baseball at lower levels.

A good third baseman has to charge bunts and cut off doubles down the line. If he can do both and hit with consistency and/or power, he'll be ranked among the greats.

April 15, 2007 marked the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's memorable debut in the major leagues.

Although many catchers labor almost anonymously behind their masks, the contributions of the best of them have long been hailed. Some are among baseball's immortals.

Conventional wisdom says that baseball is a young man's game. But these five pitchers all proved that a major leaguer could still be productive after the age of forty.

Most of post-World War II America was ready for the national pastime to become an equal opportunity employer. It took a special player to defeat the die-hard opposition.

This article reviews The Unlevel Playing Field: A Documentary History of the African American Experience in Sport, edited by David Wiggins and Patrick Miller.

Finally, a book that debunks the silly notion that the Red Sox long championship drought had anything to do with Babe Ruth.

When it came to playing games under the lights, the majors were slow getting to the party.

Stumped by Christmas shopping? Then buy your favorite baseball fan a few of these great page turners about our National Pastime.

Kenny Washington not only broke through the defenses of opposing football teams, he also crossed the racial barrier in the National Football League

Jonathan Eig's Opening Day delves into all that was behind Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball's 1947 season.

Today, all hands come together for the most popular athlete on the planet, a black golfer nicknamed Tiger, who cut his stroke-growing teeth on open-to-all public courses.