The Josh Gibson statue at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Blair Kerkhoff The Kansas City Star As if Josh Gibson’s status isn’t elevated enough by baseball’s decision to integrate ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his moonshot home runs when he met Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during ...

POCATELLO — It’s safe to say that when most local residents think about the origins of the Gate City Grays, the Negro baseball leagues of the early 20th century probably don’t come to mind. But for ...

'It's a dream come true,' Turkey Stearnes' granddaughter says of the news. From the 1920s to the '50s, Negro League Baseball (NLB) was the home for Black players who were segregated from the other, ...

The move comes three years after MLB designated Negro Leagues as Major Leagues. Major League Baseball announced on Monday that a new committee of researchers and experts is working to evaluate the ...

A Jim Crow-era term, "Negro" was first used in the 1900 census and became a commonly used word to desribe black Americans in the early 20th century. But during the 1960s, civil rights activists began ...