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Listen to Vaughn Wilson on HBCU Gameday interview current SWAC baseball coach, Alcorn State’s Brett Richardson and future SWAC baseball coach, Florida A&M’s Jamey Shouppe, discuss SWAC baseball moving forward. recorded 07/07/2020 Courtesy of HBCU Gameday
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…
Listen in as Mike Prince interviews Claflin University head baseball coach, James “Sap” Randall recorded 07/08/2020 [spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=37644222″ theme=”light” autoplay=”true” playlist=”false” cover=”https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/images.spreaker.com/original/3de9dc279802ffd89e7a03e45d4737f3.jpg” width=”100%” height=”200px”] courtesy of The Mike Prince Show
BALTIMORE – North Carolina Central University pitcher Shane Davis (Currituck, N.C.) has become the second Eagle to sign a Major League Baseball contract this year, as the Baltimore Orioles have added him to its organization, the club announced. Davis is…
The Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Board of Directors recently announced the addition of Bethune Cookman and Florida A&M Universities as the 11th and 12th members of its conference. Both Bethune Cookman and Florida A&M will become official full members effective…
Voorhees College senior Calvin Coach III has been named a 2020 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Competitiveness Scholar by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The HBCU Competitiveness Scholars is the initiative’s highest student recognition…
Because of the COVID-19 world health crisis that abruptly ended the 2020 collegiate baseball season this past March, Major League Baseball held its shortest June draft in its history with just five rounds. Since then, two HBCU draft-eligible players…
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…
SAN FRANCISCO – North Carolina Central University baseball senior Carter Williams (Brown Summit, N.C.) will be moving on to the professional ranks as he signed a free agent deal with the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball, the club announced on…
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…
The first round of the 2020 Major League Baseball player draft will get underway on Wednesday, June 10th. Instead of the normal 40 draft rounds, the 2020 draft will be limited to just 5 rounds. Historically Black College and…
