July 25, 2010 will always be an important day on the baseball calendar of Florida A&M baseball. On this date, former Rattler Andre Dawson became the first FAMU alum to be inducted into Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. Dawson’s…
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When HBCUs Dominated NAIA Baseball – Part 3
While looking through the Official NCAA Baseball Guide of 1973 for some unrelated material, I stumbled across a stat that I had not included in any of my previous updates on the good old days when HBCU’s dominated NAIA baseball. Inadvertently…
Southern University’s “Throwback Game” Weekend
The memory of Negro League baseball is alive and well in Baton Rouge, Louisiana one weekend every spring when rival Grambling State University comes to town to face host, Southern University. This year’s series will be played on Saturday, April…
Kenny Washington of UCLA – Bruin Baseball Integrator
For me, it is interesting to realize that the man who broke baseball’s “color barrier” was not even the first at his college to break that same barrier… nor was he the best on the UCLA Bruins’ ball club. When…
When HBCUs Dominated NAIA Baseball – Part 2
College baseball season is so close at hand that I can almost hear the ping of aluminum… or if I listen close enough, the crack of a wooden bat. Though it seems far from baseball weather as I look at…
Harry Ward of Wilberforce University – A Star for All Seasons
Today, legends are born and perpetuated much easier than ever before. In a world before the internet and even further back to a time without television, heroes were created with the recording of their exploits by newspaper writers and radio broadcasters. The…
Pete Barnes of Southern University – Baseball and Football All-American
It must take quite an athlete to twice earn All-American status in two different sports… no matter at what level of college athletics he or she performs. Such was the case with former NFL linebacker, Peter Barnes of Southern University. Not…
Johnny Sample of Maryland State – Outspoken Star of the 1960s
Don’t look too hard in the paper or on the internet for this week’s score of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore football game. The team is off this weekend. They did not play last weekend either. As a matter of fact, its…
Charles Follis of the College of Wooster – Football and Baseball Integrator
With it being football season, I thought I’d feature some stories about former pigskin pros who also starred in baseball during their college years. And what better place to start than with the very first African-American to play for pay.…
When HBCUs Dominated NAIA Baseball – Part 1
I recently emailed the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) asking for year-end stats from 1957 through 1969. Back when I was a volunteer sports information director for baseball at (then) Ohio Dominican College, I had collected stats from 1970…
Links to Stats for HBCU Ballplayers Taken in the 2009 MLB Draft
So, how are this year’s crop of HBCU pro baseball rookies doing? Below are links to stats for those first year MLB draft choices from HBCU schools… CJ Beatty North Carolina A&T Hiram Burgos Bethune Cookman Andrew Moss Lincoln (Mo.) Myrio Richard Prairie…