Apr. 5—From the 1920s to the 1960s, baseball was divided. Jackie Robinson may have broken the color barrier in 1947, but it took a long time before Major League Baseball was a welcome place for anyone ...

The popular baseball stats website Baseball Reference has updated its database to include the statistics of Negro League players. Baseball Reference announced the inclusion on Tuesday, adding ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and national MLB insider Russell Dorsey break down the details of the Negro League officially being integrated into the MLB historical record and what it ...

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball... The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new ...

Are you familiar with the Milwaukee Bears? They were a Negro National League team that only played for one baseball season here in 1923. Although their tenure here was short, they are part of a longer ...

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 incorporated the statistics of former Negro Leagues players into its historical records on its website, meaning legendary leaders in some categories like Babe Ruth and Ty ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Fans got a chance to come out to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on Saturday to meet two Kansas City legends, former Chiefs wide receiver Danan Hughes and former Royals first ...

At its core, baseball is a game of numbers, typified by the familiar phrase: “You are what the back of your baseball card says you are.” For the better part of three decades, Black baseball players ...

The late baseball legend Oscar Charleston is in good company this morning. Eighty years after his retirement in 1941, Charleston moved into third place Tuesday among the career leaders in OPS+ at 184 ...

(Original Caption) Josh Gibson of East is out at home in the fourth inning of the 12th annual East-West All Star Negro baseball game at Comiskey Park. Gibson was put out by Ted Radcliffe of the West.