Below are recent coaching changes for HBCU baseball head coaching and assistant coaching positions that have taken place heading into fall ball for the 2020 season. Black College Nines will continue to keep you updated on the latest coaching changes…
Editor’s Note: The Black College Legends and Pioneers Committee of the College Baseball Foundation will once again be making a selection for induction into the 2019 class of the College Baseball Hall of Fame. courtesy of the College Baseball…
“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…
Is Selma University dropping its baseball program, along with the men’s and women’s basketball programs, and athletic department? Sources tell us that the administration is at odds with the education department over federal financial assistance and that the athletic…
Former Coppin State baseball player Jahmon Taylor made his professional debut as he started on the mound Friday night for the Eastside Diamond Hoppers of the United States Professional Baseball League (USPBL), an independent league based in suburban Detroit. Taking on the…
Southern University and Norfolk State received votes in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) final NCAA Division I poll this past June 27th after the conclusion of the College World Series title game won by Vanderbilt. Southern garnered votes…
In our ongoing effort to showcase the baseball talent at historically black colleges and universities, Black College Nines identifies its HBCU baseball national individual statistical champions. Below is the list of the 2019 HBCU baseball large and small school individual…
Post season awards continue to pour in for HBCU Baseball players. The American Baseball Coaches Association, along with Rawlings Sporting Goods Company (ABCA/Rawlings), presented its 2019 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-Region teams for the eight regions across the country. The…
The Peach Belt Conference and Commissioner David Brunk have announced that Claflin University will join the league as an associate member for baseball beginning with the 2019-20 season. Claflin becomes the first PBC associate member in baseball. “We are pleased…
Former Bethune-Cookman reliever and infielder Brandon Wilkes has signed a professional contract with the Evansville Otters of the Independent Frontier League. In his redshirt-senior season, he returned well from a prior injury. From nearby Holly Hill, the two-way player served as BCU’s closer and…
