“Sports historians tell us that boxing and baseball paved the way for integration in society,” said Bernard McKenna, associate professor of English at the University of Delaware and author of the new ...

Messier beat out an infield single, Hayden Schimoler singled to left, and Caron ripped a ball to the right center field gap ...

Half a century has passed since the demise of Negro League baseball, and of the thousands ... was largely a barnstorming and de facto minor-league operation until its 1960 demise.

A young Greason beams at the center. Greason, 98, is one of baseball’s “forgotten heroes,” according to the Center for Negro League Baseball Research. Seventy-five years ago, he shut down ...

Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, brought the museum to Missouri United Methodist Church on Thursday and gave a history lesson on the Negro leagues.