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Being at Rate Field is nothing out of the ordinary for Micah Johnson, who was the 2015 White Sox Opening Day second baseman ...
Knoxville baseball legends such as Claude "Steel Arm" Dickey and Forrest “One Wing” Maddox are immortalized at Covenant ...
"I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds," he told The ...
1947 — Jackie Robinson became the first black player of ... for a nine-inning game by drawing three intentional walks. 1994 — ...
The experience at Shirokuro, which first debuted at the end of March, can only be described as stepping inside a drawing.The floors, walls, chairs and tables are all white with black trimmings ...
For six decades, baseball was segregated. White team owners followed unwritten rules, called the “gentlemen’s agreement,” under which they agreed to not sign Black players. Knoxville had ...
When I was 7 years old, Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and became the first African American to play in the major leagues. He was truly one of the game’s greatest players. He could hit ...
A new permanent exhibit at the Bronx Children’s Museum, unveiled on April 12, celebrates the childhoods of some of baseball’s ...