DENVER -- When the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame inducts its 2025 class at its 60th annual banquet on April 9 at the Hilton Denver City Center, most fans and even sports experts will celebrate many household names. But one new inductee -- Theodore “Bubbles” Anderson -- is a name

As we peruse the newly published data that can colloquially be considered “Version 2.0” of MLB’s official Negro Leagues records, let’s heed the words and wisdom of Larry Lester. For more than 30 years now, Lester, a member of MLB’s Negro League Statistical Review Committee, has been researching Black baseball

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Marquis Grissom enjoyed the kind of playing career in Major League Baseball that most kids only dream of. He won the 1995 World Series with the Braves, took home four straight Gold Glove Awards from 1993-96, made a couple All-Star teams and spent 17 seasons playing at

Nicknamed “baseball’s most hoppinest team” by the local newspaper coverage at the time, the Fredericksburg Frogs were one of the Chesapeake Bay area’s more successful teams in the 1920s, standing out amid a long lineage of segregated Black teams that played in downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia, between the 1880s and 1940s.

Satchel Paige was 59 years old – or something close to it – when he walked off a Major League mound for the last time. Pitching for the Kansas City A’s on Sept. 25, 1965, the legendary Negro Leagues star who had hurled countless thousands of innings across a career

JUPITER, Fla. – If you can see it, you can be it. This adage rings true for Marlins switch-hitting shortstop Xavier Edwards, who always considered pursuing a baseball career to be in the realm of possibility.

The Little Rock Nine sounds like it could be the name of a baseball team playing in Arkansas' capital city, and for three nights during the 2025 season, it will be. The story behind the name transcends baseball, however. From Aug. 21-23, the Arkansas Travelers -- Seattle's Double-A affiliate --

Many years ago, Astros radio play-by-play broadcaster Robert Ford penned an essay about his father, Robert “Rocky” Ford Jr., whose decorated career included two distinct acts. He started off as a music writer for Billboard Magazine, and years later, he became a producer for some of the biggest names in

In 2007, former pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant published a book that was part memoir, part baseball history, coining a term and founding a club in the process. “The Black Aces: Baseball’s Only African-American Twenty-Game Winners” recounts Grant’s upbringing in Lacoochee, Fla., before looking back at notable pitchers in the Negro

In a career that dates back to the 1970s, Ivan Nahem has written and performed music that defies convention. The vocalist and drummer has been a part of the proto-punk, post-punk, art rock and hardcore scenes in San Francisco and New York. His longest-running band, Ritual Tension, an experimental rock

A version of this story original ran in February 2022.

A version of this story originally ran in February 2022.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2010. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2018. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2008. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

A version of this story previously appeared on MiLB.com in 2007. We present it again as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

Very few people become world famous at age 13, with their image forever frozen in the public eye. For Mo’ne Davis, that was exactly what happened. Ten years after she became the first girl to win a game (and throw a shutout) in the Little League World Series, she’s a

On March 9, 2017, Royce Lewis arrived at the ballpark with added pep in his step. With a plethora of talent evaluators in the stands, Lewis, then a high school senior mere months away from becoming the first overall pick in the MLB Draft, was a powder keg of energy

"Well, Doby has returned since I wrote you before. He looks fine," Effa Manley, the owner of the Negro Leagues' Newark Eagles, wrote to Eagles shortstop (and future big leaguer) Monte Irvin about his double-play partner at the keystone, Larry Doby, on Jan. 28, 1946. Doby had recently returned from

When Jackie Robinson made his debut as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers organization in Spring Training of 1946, his jersey number was not the 42 he'd come to be associated with. That spring in Daytona Beach, and throughout the ensuing season with the Triple-A Montreal Royals, he wore number

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Ryan Howard never met his maternal grandfather, James Phillip Black, who died before Howard’s birth in 1979. But Howard is well aware of his grandfather’s legacy as a hardworking man who chose to forego baseball and instead provide stability for his family, and whose athletic genes likely

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- If you stick around long enough, it begins to feel like the universe is playing tricks on you -- especially as a baseball fan. History tends to repeat itself between the lines, giving you random bouts of déjà vu, ensuring that the beautiful legacies of the