In 1920, African American businessmen, led by F.W.Purdue of Birmingham, Alabama, founded the Negro Southern League (NSL), which lasted until the mid-1950s. The NSL developed because white baseball leagues, beginning in the 1880s, excluded African...

In his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, Ted Williams stated that he hoped that “someday Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson will be voted into the Hall of Fame as symbols of the great Negro players who are not here only because they...

One look at a current major league baseball roster reveals players of all races and colors, creeds and backgrounds. This has been true for so long that many people find it hard to believe that, at one not-so-distant time, unwritten rules and codes of...

When Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey brought about the integration of Major League baseball in 1947, they sounded the death knell of the Negro Leagues. Like many players in the old Negro Leagues, Kansas City Monarchs first baseman Buck O'Neil...

Part of the History of baseball in the United States series. Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with one of his teams, Western of Keokuk,...

Robert W. Peterson, author of a pioneering study of baseball history that ushered in an era of belated recognition for the stars of the old Negro leagues, died of lung cancer Feb. 11 at his home in Lower Macungie Township, Pa. He was 80....

Negro Leagues baseball theme will not be used by restaurant By RICK ROMELL of the Journal Sentinel staff Friday, May 4, 2001 Plans for a restaurant in a long-vacant tavern at N. 35th and W. Vliet streets are still moving...

Buck O'Neil was posthumously awarded the nation's highest civilian honor Friday, cited for a life in baseball after being barred from the national pastime in his prime.The Negro Leagues player, historian and advocate was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House...

Jazz musicians still jam till dawn at the Mutual Musicians Foundation, the old union hall that's one of the few remaining reminders of the days when Count Basie was a household name and the place to be here was 18th and Vine.But sax player Mike...