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As Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson Day the current percentage of its rosters that features Black players creeps closer to the same figure when Jackie broke baseball’s color ...

Major League Baseball's commissioner suddenly lifted the permanent ban on deceased Major League Baseball players, with the most celebrated being Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson. However ...

The league also adopted a new yearly tradition, “Jackie Robinson Day,” on which all players of all teams wear No. 42 to honor him. Robinson also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and ...

Dario Otero Jr., affectionately known as DJ, admires Jackie Robinson for making history as the first Black American to play Major League Baseball. DJ, 13, said Robinson proved that Black players ...

Number of Black MLB players is lowest in decades, and some are looking to youth baseball for a cause BY Saundra Weathers Pinellas County UPDATED 1:10 PM ET Oct. 03, 2023 PUBLISHED 6:40 PM ET Oct ...

As Robinson warned and Aaron feared, Black participation in Major League Baseball declined from 24 percent to 18.2 percent (144 to 109 players) between 1973 and 1976.

For baseball fans, the popularity of the game overshadows a more disturbing trend: the number of American-born Black players in MLB is at a historic low of 6 percent, despite many efforts to ...

The Major League Baseball season is arduously long: 162 regular-season games over six months, not including six weeks of spring training and a month of the playoffs if a team reaches the World Series.

Before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, black players weren’t allowed in Major League Baseball. Before the recent advances in the United States’ relationship with Cuba, it was ...

Major League Baseball players and coaches returned to the diamond in a major way Thursday after the pandemic delayed opening season. In Washington and L.A., players for the Washington Nationals ...

The players are: Eddie Cicotte. According to The Society for Baseball Research, Eddie Cicotte was "perhaps the first major-league pitcher to master the knuckleball." He was part of the infamous ...