“Chip” Lawrence, Cross-Checker for the San Diego Padres, hung up his baseball cleats a few years ago after a career in minor league baseball. Like any red-blooded American baseball player, he knew he wanted to stay in the game beyond…
“I’m excited to get another chance to revive a baseball program,” Coach Marcus Smith said over lunch at the iconic Beautiful Restaurant in southwest Atlanta. Fourteen lunch months ago, Smith walked away from the Head Baseball Coach position at Le…
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA Lane College rolled through Montgomery, Alabama last weekend to take on the Tuskegee Golden Tigers baseball team. After a slow start early in the season, Lane picked up steam and came into this four-game weekend series on a…
Clark-Atlanta University and Morehouse College have been playing baseball longer than the Black community has been observing Black History Month, which began as a week-long celebration during the second week in February in 1926. Baseball or a game similar…
Under patches of gray in an otherwise blue sky, on a baseball diamond in urgent need to recover from a rain storm which swept through north Georgia the day before, assembled more than 100 Black high school baseball players. Some…
In an exciting day of baseball at the 2018 SWAC Baseball Tournament, Jackson State (34-17), the top nationally ranked team in the tournament defeated Alcorn State (13-39) 4-3. Alcorn did not play like a team with only 12 wins coming…
Alcorn State University (21-24) won an exciting one run game against the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff (21-24), 14-13 in SWAC Baseball Championship action on day two of the conference tournament. It was a tight ball game, but Alcorn behind a…
The top seeds in the 2018 SWAC Baseball Tournament, as expected, advanced to the winners bracket after the first day of play. The SWAC arguably the top HBCU baseball conference in the country opened its tournament yesterday at Wesley Barrow…
On May 4, at the SIAC Baseball Tournament, my alma mater,Tuskegee University, was preparing to play a baseball game that would put them in position to play in the championship game, if they won. A Tuskegee player ran passed me…
The Albany State Golden Rams (28-16) defeated the Kentucky State Thoroughbreds to win the 2018 SIAC Baseball Championship. Coming into the tournament Albany State was ranked third in the Black College Nines Poll of small HBCUs. On their way to…
