Major League Baseball celebrates the 69th anniversary Friday of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier, and while the number of African-American players on teams remain near historic low ...

Until Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1947, African American baseball players were limited primarily to the Negro Leagues.

Amid dwindling numbers of Black players, Major League Baseball is partnering with HBCUs during All-Star weekend in Atlanta.

What You Need To Know. According to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, a little over 6% of MLB players identified as Black or African American at the start of the 2023 season, a ...

MLB teams once did the work of developing young players in their system. Not long after Curt Flood won the right of free agency for players and contracts began to rise, things started to change.

Major League Baseball saw its first Africa-born player in 2017. ... While the percentage of African American players in MLB has dwindled from 20 percent to less than 8 percent, ...

In 1976, the year I was born, 18% of Major League Baseball players were African American. A year earlier, in 1975, the representation was at its peak at 18.5%.

Smiles abounded all around at the 2025 HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile on Friday. Hosted at Atlanta’s Truist Park ...

The HBCU Swingman Classic, taking place in Atlanta at Truist Park, provides opportunity for Black baseball players to be front and center nationally ...

Every year, Spring Training kicks off the Major League Baseball (MLB) season in February, coinciding with Black History Month. Entering 2024, African American representation across the league ...

And the following decades, hundreds of black American baseball players joined Major League Baseball. But in the 1990s, the number of black players in the league started dropping significantly.