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 ...

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.

“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 ...