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...
by jbminor | Dec 6, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Henry Kimbro American baseball player Henry Kimbro (February 10, 1912 – July 11, 1999) was an American Negro Leagueoutfielder in the late 1930s and 1940s. He played for the Washington Elite Giants, Homestead Grays, Baltimore Elite Giants, and the New York Black...
by jbminor | Dec 5, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Ernie Banks American baseball player and coach Ernest Banks (January 31, 1931 – January 23, 2015), nicknamed “Mr. Cub” and “Mr. Sunshine”, was an American professional baseball player who starred in Major League Baseball(MLB) as...
by jbminor | Dec 5, 2018 | Uncategorized
Ben Taylor (Negro leagues) American baseball player Benjamin Harrison Taylor (July 1, 1888 – January 24, 1953) was an American first baseman and manager in baseball’s Negro leagues. Taylor played for the Birmingham Giants,[1]Chicago American Giants, Indianapolis...
by jbminor | Oct 4, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Wilmer Harris African-American baseball player Wilmer Joseph Harris(March 1, 1924 – December 23, 2004) was an African American pitcher who played in Negro league baseball. Listed at 6′ 0″, 175 lb., he batted and threw right Born in Philadelphia, Wilmer...
by jbminor | Sep 18, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Goose Tatum African American professional basketball and baseball player; Negro League Baseball player Reece “Goose”[1] Tatum (May 31, 1921 – January 18, 1967) was an African American multi-sport athlete. Born in El Dorado, Arkansas, Tatum played Negro...
by jbminor | Sep 13, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Cumberland Posey American basketball player Cumberland Willis Posey, Jr. (June 20, 1890 – March 28, 1946) was an American baseball player, manager, and team owner in the Negro leagues, as well as a professional basketball player and team owner. Posey was the best...
by jbminor | Sep 10, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Minnie Miñoso Cuban baseball player Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso (born Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta, /mɪˈnoʊsoʊ/; Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɲoso], November 29, 1925 – March 1, 2015), nicknamed “The Cuban Comet” and “Mr. White...
Science is Real T-Shirt
$29.95
Good Necessary Trouble T-Shirt
$29.95
Health Care Is A Human Right
$29.95
Educated, Melanated T-Shirt
$29.95