While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent to less than 8 percent, hardly any have come from the African continent. In geographic terms, Al Cabrera in ...

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African-American baseball players were not allowed to play in what would come to be known as Major League Baseball until 1947 as Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he took the field for the ...

"like the California condor," African-American players might soon be gone from big-league baseball (parenthetically, I felt he meant "good riddance"). African-Americans like Dave Winfield are in ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.

In the '74 Series there were 15 African-American players. Today there are 3. And the number of African-American baseball players on Major League Baseball teams stands around 8% – that's a huge ...

“Robinson is actually named after Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the MLB,” Livingstone said. “We loved the story. In my lineage, we actually have African ...

Yet only a mile away, a stadium is built to honor an African-American baseball player named Pop Lloyd. Dubbed the "Black Wagner", John Henry "Pop" Lloyd was one of the greatest athletes of his time.