ROCHESTER — The story of southpaw Dave Brown’s life has tantalized generations of Negro baseball league historians - like a squirting ground ball just out of reach of an infielder. Brown was among the ...

Apr. 5—From the 1920s to the 1960s, baseball was divided. Jackie Robinson may have broken the color barrier in 1947, but it took a long time before Major League Baseball was a welcome place for anyone ...

In baseball, statistics offer the comfort of order and certainty, though their greatest power is as a proxy for legacy. Mere symbols on a page — 61*, 714, .406 — make it possible to reach back in time ...

The popular baseball stats website Baseball Reference has updated its database to include the statistics of Negro League players. Baseball Reference announced the inclusion on Tuesday, adding ...

In his film The League, Sam Pollard tells the story of the Negro National League: "They brought a different kind of style ... a kind of baseball... The Negro League revolutionized baseball – MLB's new ...

Telling the story of baseball without the Negro Leagues would paint an incomplete and narrow picture of America’s pastime. Baseball’s history is finally getting a revision. Negro Leagues statistics ...

Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick speaks to members of the media Wednesday about Major League Baseball’s decision to include Negro Leagues stats in official Major League Baseball ...

Are you familiar with the Milwaukee Bears? They were a Negro National League team that only played for one baseball season here in 1923. Although their tenure here was short, they are part of a longer ...

It’s just one of the lasting economic legacies of the professional baseball played in the Negro Leagues in the 20th century. The roaring ’20s, however, came to a sober end with the Great Depression, ...

As we head into Spring Training season here in Arizona, Major League Baseball is making history by finally recognizing Negro League baseball players as "Major League." This is a huge deal because it ...

NEW YORK >> Willie Mays will add some hits to his record, Monte Irvin’s big league batting average should climb over .300 and Satchel Paige may add nearly 150 victories to his total. Josh Gibson, the ...

Josh Gibson, one of the greatest sluggers in the history of the Negro Leagues, could become big league baseball’s single-season batting average record holder with the .441 mark he set 77 years ago.