PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his moonshot home runs when he met Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers during ...
'It's a dream come true,' Turkey Stearnes' granddaughter says of the news. From the 1920s to the '50s, Negro League Baseball (NLB) was the home for Black players who were segregated from the other, ...
The Josh Gibson statue at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. Blair Kerkhoff The Kansas City Star As if Josh Gibson’s status isn’t elevated enough by baseball’s decision to integrate ...
They called him “The Black Lou Gehrig,” a quiet left-hander from Rocky Mount who clubbed the ball so hard and reliably that he racked up a .345 lifetime batting average in the Negro Leagues — higher ...
Nearly six months after its world premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, three months since its distribution to major U.S. cities and two weeks after the 2017 Academy Awards—where ...
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