For an Englewood baseball team, ... But away from home, the hostility was conspicuous, especially in the Jim Crow South. It was a far cry from what many of the players were used to.

Just about any kind of institution with nine people had a baseball team.” And so, in a city rigidly segregated by Jim Crow, where blacks and whites rarely mixed, the KKK and the Monrovians faced ...

It’s not in history books. But 69 years ago this summer, the late Harry Hoe took a baseball bat to Jim Crow segregation in Middlesboro, Kentucky. “He and seven other men started the first ...

Baseball started in Colorado in the 1860s, and early on, many of the Colorado teams were integrated. But in the 1890s, Jim Crow laws were adopted that banned integrated teams, and that was when ...

Byron Donalds is just 45 years old and would do well to listen to some elders about the reality of Jim Crow—elders like the great Reggie Jackson. The tragedy is that it benefits Donalds to close ...

J. L. “Wilkie” Wilkinson, a baseball team owner, needed to put more bodies in seats. It was 1930, the year after the stock market had crashed, and the Depression was taking its toll. Not even ...