by jbminor | Jan 19, 2025 | Negro Leagues
Stanley “Doc” Glenn (September 19, 1926 – April 16, 2011) was a baseball catcher with the Philadelphia Stars of the Negro leagues from 1944 to 1950. He also played three years in the minors and two in the Canadian senior Intercounty Baseball...
by jbminor | Jan 19, 2025 | Negro Leagues
Bob Kendrick (born June 15, 1962) is the President of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to that he served as the museum’s first Director of Marketing and was promoted to Vice President of Marketing in 2009. He left to serve...
by jbminor | Aug 28, 2024 | Negro Leagues
Business leader, civil rights activist, professor, nurse, wife, and mother, Rachel Isum Robinson is a woman of enormous accomplishments, her own and those achieved jointly with her husband, Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball in 1947...
by jbminor | Aug 28, 2024 | Negro Leagues
Jim Robinson KC Monarchs ames “Jim” Robinson was a member of powerhouse North Carolina A&T Aggie teams of the late 1940s and early 1950s that captured three consecutive CIAA championships from his sophomore through senior years in college. He arrived in...
by jbminor | Jan 16, 2019 | Negro Leagues
Team Nubian www.teamnubian.com It’s that time of year when students get ready to graduate and move on to the next phase of their lives. At colleges and universities, it has become customary to award honorary degrees to individuals who have made great contributions to...