Black players were barred from Major League Baseball for decades. NBC News' Zinhle Essamuah looks at how the Negro Leagues ...

The number of Black American players in Major League Baseball has plummeted to just 6%, offering a warning about what can happen when institutions de-emphasize diversity. IE 11 is not supported.

White played baseball at Brown in in 1879 and 1880 but, ... 1879, a man born a slave in Georgia played in a major-league baseball game. A black man named White played for the Grays.

Meanwhile, the Nashville Stars, a potential MLB expansion team in the future, unveiled the club's logo and cap, where the ...