Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...
Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots ...
Méndez, who hailed from Cardenas, was also a two-way player who had a 20-year professional career in which he played seven in ...
A search of New Orleans area newspaper archives revealed that his baseball journeys took him to New Orleans on numerous ...
1908— Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity is incorporated. The Black Greek-letter organization was actually founded, however, on Dec. 4, 1906. The “brothers of the black and gold” have included as members a ...
It’s tongue and cheek, of course. But that same sentiment can be said, in a more serious tone, about Black history: It cannot ...
Frank Duncan played baseball in the Negro Leagues with the Kansas City Monarchs for more than 20 years and was known as a dynamic catcher and explosive base runner. File The Kansas City Star ...