After A Thrilling Run Through the SWAC Tournament Grambling State University (26-26), a number two western conference seed heading into last week’s SWAC Baseball Championship, left a week of thrills on the field at Russ Chandler Stadium in Midtown Atlanta.…
HBCU Baseball in the Spotlight this Week ATLANTA, Georgia – The Southwest Athletic Conference, the nation’s premiere Black College Baseball Conference, kicks off its championship tourney this week at Russ Chandler Stadium on the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown…
The Alabama State University Hornets are poised to repeat as SWAC baseball champions and receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Playoffs. The East Alabama school rolls into the 2023 Southwest Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament as the number one…
15th Annual Event Brings Out Black Baseball Moms In Support of Their Sons On this mid-July weekend, a beautiful ocean blue sky with a couple of white puffy clouds, painted, perhaps by the almighty, a fleeting summer breeze cooled the…
While the Face of Black College Baseball Grows Whiter and Whiter When I was a high schooler in Macon, Georgia, I dreamed of playing collegiate baseball at Georgia Tech in Atlanta during the early days of school desegregation. In 1969,…
Lorenzo “Lo” Ogden Now Playing First Base With the Heavenly Host When Lorenzo Ogden stepped on the Tuskegee Institute campus in1968, he was a tall, skinny kid off the sandlots of Birmingham, Alabama. He spent his summer days playing baseball…
HBCU Alumni Proud of National Spotlight Marie Duval a PWI graduate and Steve Duval an HBCU graduate enjoying the Ralph Garr-Bill Lucas HBCU Baseball Classic, March 14, 2021, Photo Cascade Publishing House Marie Duval did not attend an HBCU; she…
Why the Ralph Garr-Bill Lucas HBCU Baseball Classic Matters? A faint breeze slightly chilled the night air, the sky tinted ocean blue, and patches of small fluffy clouds lingered in the afterglow of dusk, hinted at the artistry of the…
Tuskegee University Returns Home Games to Campus Many of the happiest days of my life are moments spent on a baseball diamond. Mostly sandlots: sometimes cow pastures turned into a ball field for Sunday baseball outings, some with meticulously kept…
There is a myth that Black youngsters are not playing baseball these days. If you look at Major League Baseball (MLB) rosters and most Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), it is easy to come away with that impression. Around…
