The diversity of MLB rosters is as strong as ever, and the effects of the league’s efforts to improve its percentage of Black ...

Knoxville baseball legends such as Claude "Steel Arm" Dickey and Forrest “One Wing” Maddox are immortalized at Covenant ...

Editor's Note: The Iowa City Press-Citizen Editorial Board is a volunteer group of community members. They are Venise Berry, Dave Bright, Robert Goodfellow, and Kylah Hedding. The editorial board is ...

Statues unveiled April 8 at Covenant Health Park pay homage to the history of Black baseball in Knoxville ... up in about the same spot. The James White Parkway was built in 1978 between the ...

The Chicago White Sox ACE 13U team played a doubleheader earlier this month at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala.

A study from Pew Research found that 79 percent of Black men are married to Black women. However, there’s a stigma that Black men tend to gravitate toward putting a ring on non-Black women. That ...

"I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds," he told The ...

For six decades, baseball was segregated. White team owners followed unwritten rules, called the “gentlemen’s agreement,” under which they agreed to not sign Black players. Knoxville had ...

As the Cleveland Guardians play their 2025 home opener, April 8 marks 50 years since Frank Robinson debuted as MLB's first ...