followed suit with a "gentleman's agreement" that effectively banned African-Americans from the professional leagues for the next 60 years. Fleet Walker Moses Fleetwood "Fleet" Walker is credited as ...

The steepest decline in African-American baseball players occurred in the 1990s ... They investigated using five different approaches: First, they compared county-level birth data with a database ...

Why was a baseball field named after an African-American ballplayer in a time of intense racial tension? In 1949 America was a very different place. Racial segregation is widespread, and in ...

“Robinson is actually named after Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player in the MLB,” Livingstone said. “We loved the story. In my lineage, we actually have African ...

From 2017-2022, he served as part-owner and CEO of MLB’s Miami Marlins, overseeing the day-to-day for both the business and baseball operations for the team. He was the first African-American to serve ...

This playground honors former Dodger Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the first African-American Major League Baseball player. On April 15, 1947, Robinson made history as the first Black to play in a ...