A white college baseball coach in Georgia allegedly prohibited a Black player from joining his team due to the length of his hair. A source on the baseball team told WALB News 10 that Akridge and ...

Only 6.1% players on this year’s opening-day rosters are Black, 58 of the 945 players on the active, injured and restricted lists, the smallest percentage since 1955, according to a study by USA ...

Shut out by the white establishment, Black players formed their own leagues. During that time, Black baseball stars played their White counterparts at least 438 times in offseason exhibition games.

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A Georgia college’s white baseball manager is under fire after allegedly telling a black player he couldn’t play on the team because his hair was too long and didn’t conform to the rules set ...

As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day the current percentage of its rosters that features Black players creeps closer to the same figure when Jackie broke baseball’s color ...

*Today, let’s honor the achievements of famous Black baseball players and the valuable contributions these home run heroes made on and off the field. Until Jackie Robinson broke the color line ...

Baseball has launched programs to boost participation in recent years, and one result has been an uptick in the number of Black players drafted in the top 100 — an average of 12 per year since 2021.