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Earlier this week Wilberforce University President Elfred Anthony Pinkard made an exciting announcement that the long dormant Wilberforce Bulldog baseball program will be resurrected with on the field play beginning in the fall of 2022. For me, that means a… 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…
Author: Jay Sokol
Jay Sokol is the founder of Black College Nines in 2009. Longtime researcher of college baseball and former general manager and lead recruiter of the Delaware (Ohio) Cows of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League – a summer collegiate wooden bat pro prospect developmental league. Previously Sokol served as the volunteer sports information director for baseball at Ohio Dominican College (now Ohio Dominican University) in the mid-1990s. He is a member of the National College Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA), Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and a founding member of the HBCU-Pro Sports Media Association (HBCU-PSMA).
A Primer on Wilberforce University Baseball History… Now that it’s Back in Business!
2021 Black History Month… HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites – “Black National Anthem”
Black College Nines’ Michael Coker Discusses the Career of Southern University Great Lou Brock on the Carlos Brown Show
Reliving Southern University’s 1959 College World Series Title
Integrators of College Baseball – Kenny Washington
HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites – 2019 Black History Month Week Three
HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites – 2019 Black History Month Week Two
HBCU Baseball Historical Hi-Lites – 2019 Black History Month Week One
From HBCU Diamond to Major League Baseball… Who Was the First?
Former Central State and MLB Star Eddie Milner Passes Away
