There are 10 black pitchers who have been inducted into Baseball’s Hall of Fame, but eight of those are from the Negro Leagues. The other two are Gibson, inducted in 1981, and Canadian native ...

As Black History Month winds down and baseball prepares for its annual celebration of the game’s integration by Jackie Robinson in April 1947, it’s worth noting how little Black representation ...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Pirates right-handed starting pitcher Paul Skenes has had one of the best starts to an MLB career ever. He dominated the Detroit Tigers ...

Had the game not been segregated, the late Satchel Paige would probably be known as the greatest Black pitcher in Major League Baseball history. Denied his chance by racism, Paige didn’t pitch ...

Just four years after Major League Baseball’s integration, Newcombe won 20 games for the Dodgers. That was the start of an extraordinary club. Don Newcombe was the first black player to win 20 ...

And once he hit that stride, there weren’t many pitchers better in Major League Baseball. Among his many highlights, Stewart helped the Oakland A’s beat the San Francisco Giants to win the ...

Black baseball players made up about 20% of Major League Baseball in the 1970s. Today, they're less than 8%.

Though it was a room-temperature evening in Cleveland Stadium on Sept. 16, 1960, with a gentle breeze blowing off Lake Erie, Cleveland pitcher Jim “Mudcat” Grant was hot. Red hot. Angry hot ...

Texas Rangers pitcher Marc Church photographed during spring training photo day at the team's training facility on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, in Surprise, Ariz.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer ...