NEW YORK (AP) — Reggie Jackson insists in his new autobiography that he never disparaged Thurman Munson in an attention-grabbing Sport magazine report 36 years ago, a claim the author immediately denied. Jackson also criticizes Billy Martin, praises George Steinbrenner and portrays racial discrimination he faced throughout his career. Robert Ward’s story in the June […]
DETROIT (AP) — Gates Brown, an outfielder who played his entire 13-year major league career with the Detroit Tigers, has died. He was 74. The team confirmed Brown’s death Friday. Brown, jailed for armed robbery in Ohio before starting his baseball career, played on Detroit’s 1968 team that won the World Series, and was part […]
ATLANTA (AP) — In the game of blind baseball, players use their sense of sound to make up for their lack of sight. They play the game known as Beep baseball with an oversized softball that beeps and bases that buzz. The National Beep Baseball Association was founded in 1975. Teams have been formed nationwide […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s City Council gave final approval Wednesday to a $500 million renovation of historic Wrigley Field that includes its first massive Jumbotron, improved facilities for the players in the bowels of the 99-year-old ballpark and a hotel across the street. Under the plan, the Chicago Cubs would erect a 5,700-square-foot electronic Jumbotron […]
Roland Martin talks with former MLB player Harold Reynolds about the several African-American prospects who are projected to be drafted in the 2013 Major League Baseball draft.
Dear Tom: I am a parent of a player of the Whites Creek Cobras baseball team. I am writing today asking for a Christmas Wish for these boys. I feel they have gotten the short end of the stick. The team is not funded by the school and parents have to come out of pocket […]
He was referred to as the “Greatest Pitcher Never Known” and his name was Will “Cannonball” Jackman. Jackman joined the Boston Colored Giants in the 1924-1925 season and played ball until he was well into his sixties. He won more than half of the 1,200 games he pitched over 20 years, with nearly 800 strikeouts […]
Brooklyn-born Howard grad Chadwick Boseman is a star in the making. The actor best known for his role as Nathaniel “Nate” Ray on the ABC Family Show “Lincoln Heights” has just moved past the rest of the newly minted crop of Black actors with his starring role as Jackie Robinson in “42.” He’s already getting […]
Africa finally gets to bat in the Little League Baseball World Series. For the first time in the series’ 66-year history, a team from Africa will vie for the championship when the summer classic begins next month in Williamsport, Pa. The Lugazi Little League from, Lugazi, Uganda, qualified for the series by defeating a team […]
