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Amid dwindling numbers of Black players, Major League Baseball is partnering with HBCUs during All-Star weekend in Atlanta.
Exposure is key, and 50 players across 17 HBCU baseball programs will have the chance to make an impression Friday night in Atlanta.
Smiles abounded all around at the 2025 HBCU Swingman Classic presented by T-Mobile on Friday. Hosted at Atlanta’s Truist Park ...
The 2023 season began with only about 6% of the players being Black or African-American, according to The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport.
In 1947, Larry Doby became the first Black player in Major League Baseball's American League, joining the Cleveland Indians 11 weeks after Jackie Robinson broke the sport's color barrier with the ...
Rap Dixon was a legendary African American baseball player who played in what were known as the Negro Leagues. This film | dG1fTGM0a3JZNkNTYjA Dick Van Dyke’s wife shares statement after actor ...
Twenty-three big league seasons, over 9,500 plate appearances and more than 2,500 hits. That’s the combined résumé of former ...
From rural reservations to shebeens or speakeasies (bars) - wherever black people gathered, they were talking about Ashe's ...
This is ’s weekly women’s soccer newsletter. Sign up here to receive Full Time directly in your inbox. As a Shel Silverstein poem starts: “When the light turns green, you go. When the light turns red, ...
Larry Doby broke the color barrier in the American League. But as Terry Pluto explains, his rushed debut with the Cleveland ...