It’s just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century. The roaring ’20s, however, came to a sober end with the Great Depression, ...

Major League Baseball has taken steps to honor the Negro leagues that thrived during the era of racial segregation, but far less attention has been given to the semiprofessional Black baseball ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of their first conversations together occurred inside an office building, the two men starting, to their surprise, what became a life-changing friendship. In 1993, Bob Kendrick ...

To anyone questioning the legitimacy of making Negro Leagues statistics part of Major League Baseball’s official record, I pose this question: How legitimate were MLB’s statistics prior to 1947, when ...

Telling the story of baseball without the Negro Leagues would paint an incomplete and narrow picture of America’s pastime. Baseball’s history is finally getting a revision. Negro Leagues statistics ...

In the heart of Kansas City stands a monument to triumph, resilience, and the entrepreneurial spirit of Black America. The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum preserves not just baseball history, but a ...

CHARLOTTE — It’s been 58 years since community members in the Charlotte region first came together to form semi-pro baseball teams forming the Triple County Baseball League. For years, the story of ...

NORFOLK — Sam Allen is enjoying life. At 88, the Norfolk native wouldn’t have it any other way. Last month, the former Negro League baseball player was in Baltimore as the Orioles celebrated Negro ...

Hinchliffe Stadium is hosting baseball games again. On Sunday, for the first time in 26 years, baseball was played at the historic stadium -- which was once a site of Negro League games -- by the New ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues. During ...

Actor Jaeda LaVonne practices throwing a baseball for the lead role in Unicorn Theatre's production "Toni Stone." The play is about the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues. ‘Toni Stone’ explores ...

Josh Gibson has long been considered one of the best baseball players to ever hold a bat, but you might not know his name. Gibson, who was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972, never had ...