Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

From the rodeo to baseball. Historian and author Phil Dixon—who also co-founded the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas ...

The shrine to some of baseball’s best and previously-forgotten players is getting too big to miss largely out of necessity, ...

Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...

Bob Kendrick has been the president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum since 2011, but he said it’s too early to talk about ...

BUZZ MAGAZINE The Negro Leagues have only recently received their due in baseball history, as their story, in a time when ...

Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...

It’s tongue and cheek, of course. But that same sentiment can be said, in a more serious tone, about Black history: It cannot ...

“Mr. Cub” himself, Ernie Banks, had to be convinced to go to Chicago after falling in love with Kansas City during his time with the Negro Leagues’ Monarchs.

What prompted Steve to share it with me was its cover, the only periodical known to have featured Josh Gibson, the premier ...

Baseball was in his blood,” said his great-nephew, Ray Mackey III. “He and his siblings grew up playing ball on the sandlots ...