The Independent Pecos League has quite a few Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball players this season achieving success playing professional baseball and looking for a crack at the Major Leagues. The Tucson Saquaros (Tucson, Arizona) Jesse Baker, former…
After playing four years of baseball for Wiley College, outfielder Erick Magee, who went undrafted by Major League Baseball this past June, signed a pro contract to play professional baseball with the Trinidad Triggers. Trinidad (Colorado) is in the North…
The latest ticket on the Historically Black College and University (HBCU) baseball coaching carousel has been punched with the official naming of Jose Vazquez to the head coaching position at Alabama State University on Tuesday, July 13th. To date, here…
MONTGOMERY – Jose’ Vazquez has been named Alabama State head baseball coach, Athletic Director Melvin Hines announced today. Vazquez will be formally introduced at a 1 p.m. press conference Thursday at the ASU Stadium Club Lounge. Vazquez has spent 14…
This past December, the Stillman College administration decided in a cost cutting move to drop baseball and other athletic programs do in the face of financial challenges. By cutting its sports program, the goal was to keep the institution from…
Former Edward Waters College baseball All-American catcher Jesse Baker has earned an all-star spot representing the Tucson Saguaros professional baseball team in the Pecos League All-Star Game to be played July 11th at 6:00 PM in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Baker has…
Former Jackson State head baseball coach Robert Braddy was one of seven new inductees to enter the National College Baseball Hall of Fame at its annual Night of Champions in Lubbock, Texas last week. Braddy compiled an 824-546 record in…
MONTGOMERY – Mervyl Melendez has resigned as head baseball coach at Alabama State University, Athletic Director Melvin Hines said. Melendez posted a five-year record of 158-117 at Alabama State, leading the program to unprecedented accomplishments. Among the first-time achievements, the…
DURHAM, N.C. – Former North Carolina Central University pitcher Andrew Vernon expected to hear his name called in the 2016 MLB First-Year Player Draft– he just didn’t expect to be the last one to know about it. “I was actually at…
MONTGOMERY – Alabama State baseball pitcher Joseph Camacho has signed a free agent contract with the Oakland A’s. Camacho (5-9, 175; Sr., El Paso, Texas) recorded one of the most outstanding careers in the history of Hornet Athletics. The four-year starter went…
