After losing to the LA Dodgers in the World Series, the New York Yankees wasted little time in bolstering their lineup, especially their pitching crew which at times looked underwhelming against ...
The connective tissue of baseball extends so far and touches to many individuals. Grant, who sang the anthem for Robinson’s ...
Jackie Robinson’s granddaughter ... him play in the 1955 World Series between the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. Robinson was the first Black player to break major league baseball ...
It had only been a day or so since Dave Sims had been officially named as the Yankees’ next radio voice, and amid a deluge of congratulatory phone calls and text messages sat an urgent request: you ...
When baseball history buffs recall black players from the New Orleans area, names like Johnny Wright, John Bissant, Dave ...
the most significant of them with the New York Yankees from 1950-57 ... game-saving shoetop catch off Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson in the seventh game in 1952. The next year, his record 12th ...
Baseball helped Earl Weaver open his mind. This is how Frank Robinson becomes the sport’s first Black manager.
It can be argued that even before the Harlem Renaissance, the concept of Black intellectualism was born right here in Atlanta.
In the century before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and decades before Jack Johnson became the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, a Black man named ...
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