sports Rangers. In black and white: Mixing Negro League, MLB stats reduces baseball history’s gray area A look at the shakeup of some long-held records, and at some notable Texans who played in ...

More than a baseball team, the Black Sox drew crowds of Black and white fans. They sat side by side, and winning would bring the whole of Baltimore together, at least for a few hours at a time.

Because of this, White is the first known Black man to play Major League Baseball. But he was not the first “openly” Black man to play; White “passed” as a white man.

Every April 15, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day. Players wear No. 42 for Robinson, the first Black player in the league in the 20th century. The celebrations serve not only as ...