By College Baseball Foundation August 6, 2020 One of the winningest college coaches and one of baseball’s most decorated players highlight the 2020 National College Baseball Hall of Fame induction class. This year’s class, which will be inducted as a part…
In the fall semester of 1961, a freshman from Boynton Beach, Fla., arrived on Florida A&M’s campus ready to leave her historic mark on Tallahassee. And she didn’t even know it. For Harriett Louise Adderley, her remarkable story from Tallahassee…
Donnie Shell perseveres. For so many years as he forged his path, people doubted and discounted him. As a dedicated student and athlete coming out of rural Whitmire, South Carolina, he barely registered on college recruiters’ radars. And when he…
Think of Roy Lee Jackson and an image of the 6-foot-2 righthander firing off the mound might quickly come to mind. How about visions of the powerful bat he wielded in college? Or maybe you think of his singing and…
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…
In the 1960s, on the campus of Florida A&M, a sports fan could marvel at an incredible array of student-athletes doing their thing for FAMU. Jake Gaither and Bobby Lang had established dominant football and track programs led by future…
The path of the Great Migration led many people from tucked-away rural parts of the Deep South, like Mississippi, to muscular, bustling northern cities, like Chicago. Marvin Freeman, born on the South Side of Chicago in 1963, traveled against that…
To look at Andre Dawson’s career is to see a player who ascended into the rarified air of baseball’s most accomplished players. He is one of five players to hit at least 400 home runs (438) and steal 300 bases…
Editor’s Note… Our Black College Legends and Pioneers Committee recently selected Andre Dawson from among the committee’s nominated candidates as our submission for inclusion into the 2019 class of the National College Basball Hall of Fame. LUBBOCK, Texas —…
As a multi-sport athlete growing up in Memphis, Fred Valentine always found a field or court to play on. But while Mr. Valentine, who was born in Mississippi, juggled sports, he paid as much or more attention to his academics.…
