Leaders & Innovators' spotlights Black managers who led teams ... believes was an oversight when Major League Baseball integrated the statistics of the Negro Leagues in a long overdue but ...

A Chicagoan by the name of Andrew “Rube” Foster would lead a contingent of 8 independent black baseball team owners into Kansas City, and they formed the Negro National League. The Negro ...

to discuss plans for a professional Black baseball league. To their surprise, Foster came in with the papers, signaling that the Negro National League (NNL) was official. Celebrations honor Willie ...

It’d be easy to confuse these innovations as just a natural development of the game, and that is partially true – the Negro League Baseball League brought them into existence. The Negro ...

The Negro League Baseball Museum celebrates Black excellence in baseball. On Feb 13, 1920, Andrew “Rube” Foster called a meeting of Black baseball team owners in Kansas City, MO, to discuss ...

Saperstein was a fixture in baseball’s Negro Leagues. He also elevated Black folks in positions of authority within his Globetrotter organization, and assisted Olympic champion Jesse Owens financially ...

Voices of community members singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" rose to the ceiling of a packed chapel Thursday at the 100th anniversary commemoration of the first Negro League World Series.

Balls signed by the two oldest surviving players of Negro League baseball will be among the ... he did in his professional career. Among his Black Barons teammates was Hall of Famer Willie Mays ...

There is a lovable losers quality to the Black ... League,” at the Plainfield Library on Aug. 10. Directed by Sam Pollard, “The League” celebrates the dynamic journey of Negro League ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - The Negro League Baseball Museum expansion project is growing with two developers promising to bring a 100-unit hotel on top of that expansion and up to 200 apartments ...

“Like the Birmingham Black Barons, the Atlanta Black Crackers — all those Negro League teams.” “We were not just a little ragtag league of guys that liked to play baseball,” Koontz added.