The 11-year-old Los Angeles boy had one item on his Christmas list: a hobby box of 2024 Topps Chrome Update. But given the price of those 24-pack boxes -- around $320, if you're lucky -- his parents t ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

The Athletic ’s Keith Law released his annual top 100 MLB prospects heading into the 2025 season earlier this week. I’d ...