Last fall, before the opening kickoff at professional football games played on week one of the season, millions of Americans were introduced to a hymn that has been an inspiration to this country’s African-American population since the early years of…
Listen in as Carlos Brown and our Michael Coker discuss the impact of the career of the late Major League Baseball Hall of Famer and College Baseball Hall of Famer, Lou Brock. recorded 09/12/2020
Editor’s Note: In conjunction with the timing of what would have been the College World Series season, I was asked by Ryan Whirty to prepare a story for his wonderful website, The Negro Leagues Up Close. This story originally appeared…
Editors note… this was originally posted on February 16, 2010 and has been edited for posting during 2019 Black History Month. For me, it is interesting to realize that the man who broke baseball’s “color barrier” was not even the…
This is the third installment during Black History Month of HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites in “trading card” format. In his only year of college baseball, Tommie Agee earned National Intercollegiate Athletic Association (NAIA) All-American honors finishing third in the country…
This is the second installment during Black History Month of HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites in “trading card” format. In July of 1974, in a surprise move to most, it was announced that South Carolina State College (now South Carolina State…
This is the first installment during Black History Month of HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites in “trading card” format. While Johnson C. Smith University and Livingstone College have not supported baseball programs since well before the mid-twentieth century, the two rival…
In spite of baseball’s obsession with statistics, records and “firsts”, I’ve yet to see any documentation about the first individual to transition from HBCU baseball to the Major Leagues. If you know the name Jackie Robinson, then you’ll probably know…
Sadly I first read on Facebook this past Wednesday that former Central Sate (Ohio) Marauder and Major Leaguer, Eddie Milner passed away at age 60 on Monday, November 2, 2015. I think this hit me differently than most MLB’ers who…
As we end black history month 2015, we are saddened to learn of the passing of the National Basketball Association’s integrator, Earl Lloyd. Most probably didn’t know that Mr. Lloyd also played baseball at West Virginia State University. Below is…
