by jbminor | Jul 5, 2018 | Negro Leagues
INTEGRATION AND THE END OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES By that point, the push to integrate major league baseball was slowly gaining steam. In 1942, former UCLA athletic star Jackie Robinson and another black player named Nate Moreland were granted a cursory workout with the...
by jbminor | Jul 3, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Louis Santop American baseball player Louis Santop Loftin (January 17, 1890 – January 22, 1942) was an African-American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues. He became “one of the earliest superstars” and “black baseball’s first legitimate...
by jbminor | Jul 1, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Monte Irvin American baseball player Monford Merrill “Monte” Irvin (February 25, 1919 – January 11, 2016) was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who played with the Newark Eagles (1938–42,...
by jbminor | Jul 1, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Larry Doby American baseball player Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball’s color barrier. A...
by jbminor | Jun 30, 2018 | Negro Leagues
HALL OF A SHAME FAME FINDS LEON DAY TOO LATE FOR LEGEND TO WALK THROUGH SHRINE. MICHAEL JAMES APR 23, 1995 12:00 AM “I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day, for night cometh, when no man can work. ” John 9:4 NIGHT CAME swiftly for Leon...
by jbminor | Jun 29, 2018 | Negro Leagues
This article was written by Thomas Kern “If we had one game to win, we wanted Leon to pitch.” — Monte Irvin  So much of Leon Day’s story is caught up in his last years and his long wait for the Hall of Fame call. For Day, who spent a lifetime exceeding at...
by jbminor | Jun 27, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Snapshot of an HBCU That’s 90 Percent White For decades HBCUs have been enrolling increasing numbers of non-black students. At Bluefield State College though, whites are in the overwhelming majority. Julianne Hing  OCT 18, 2013 3:35PM EDT still from Bluefield...
by jbminor | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Curt Flood: The Forgotten Free Agent provided by The Third City James Kay, Sports Editor February 26, 2015 For this week’s Black History Month athlete in focus, I will be profiling an athlete who has fallen off the radar despite being one of the most important figures...
by jbminor | Jun 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
Howard University University in Washington D.C. Howard University (HU or simply Howard) is a federally chartered, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically blackuniversity (HBCU) in Washington, D.C. It is categorized by the Carnegie Foundation as a research...
by jbminor | Jun 25, 2018 | Negro Leagues
Buck Leonard American baseball player Walter Fenner “Buck” Leonard (September 8, 1907 – November 27, 1997) was an Americanfirst baseman in Negro league baseball and in the Mexican League. After growing up in North Carolina, he played for the Homestead...
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