A look at the elite African-American players in Major League Baseball history reads like a who’s who of the upper rungs of Cooperstown. These are pioneering stars not only on the diamond, but ...

There's a serious dearth of African-American baseball players. While commemorating Jackie Robinson's 100th birthday this year, MLB has an African-American population of only 7.7% this season.

Where have all the African-American Major League Baseball players, once so dominant in the sport, gone? In 1981, 18.7% of the league's players, and 22% of the All-Star game rosters, were African ...

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 ...

The Washington Post spent this baseball season examining the experiences of nine African American ballplayers, from a 90-year-old icon to an 18-year-old prospect, learning what they can tell us ...

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.

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.

The percentage of African American players peaked in 1981 at 18.7% and did not dip below 16 % until 1997, according to the Society of American Baseball Research. The 1989 All-Star game alone ...

The lack of blacks in baseball became a hot-button issue this week when the Dodgers’ Milton Bradley — one of two African-American players on the team that brought Robinson to the majors in ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. – America’s past time takes us back to the desert in the late 1940’s for spring training and a pivotal moment in history. It was during that time when baseball coincided with ...

Even the biggest African American baseball stars rarely speak out on sensitive matters during their playing careers. The sport’s culture discourages individuality in any form, and a player who ...