As the saying goes, records are meant to be broken. But no Division II college baseball player has made a statement strong enough to remove Charles Stukes from the record books since 1967 (more on that later). Mr. Stukes was…
Ask any coach. When it comes to recruiting future Major League Baseball players, the process of battling other schools and convincing players to sign with you can be vicious. That wasn’t the case for Grambling’s Hall of Fame Head Coach…
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…
When we caught up with Reggie Williams in late August, he was busy packing belongings and tying up affairs in Daytona Beach where he spent the summer as a coach with the Daytona Tortugas, Class A affiliate of the Cincinnati…
If you were looking for thunder in the lineup in early 1970s SIAC baseball, you could zero in on Albany State. There, Greg Wells terrorized pitchers for four years and earned his nickname “Boomer.” He was a force on the…
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…
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…
When Dave Clark arrived at Jackson State as a freshman in the fall of 1980, he was a talented baseball player who nearly didn’t get a chance at a college career. He was so uncertain of his baseball future, he…
Major League Baseball has finally decided to recognize the now-defunct Negro Leagues as one of its own. The stigma of being outside of what was called “organized” baseball is no more. In one form or another, the game that has…
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
