He was the first Black player for the franchise and went on to be known as ‘Mr. Cub.’ He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1977. Willie Wells (Michael Hogue) ...

June 22, 2020 When the KKK Played Against an All-Black Baseball Team For the white-robed, playing a black team was a gift-wrapped photo op, a chance to show that the Klan was part of the local ...

It's a simple way to help. The adult Southerners’ argument for white supremacy was so fragile it could be defeated by 11- and 12-year-old Black boys with baseball gloves and bats.

As the number of African-American baseball players continues to decline, black players are often surprised to find themselves in the minority even at historically black colleges.

St. Louis Cardinals players Curt Flood, Bill White and Bob Gibson, pictured in 1966, 1962 and 1967, respectively. They are the focus of a new History Channel documentary about the Black baseball ...

Courtesy National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum Maxwell had an audience of both Black and white listeners, and he had so much credibility that Major League players would often stop by his show for ...