NEGRO LEAGUES

In a profile over the summer, I asked Cam Perron what he’s up to next. At the time, the young Negro Leagues…

Vanessa Rose stands at the ready in center field. In a half-crouch with her glove-hand resting on one knee and her…

This is a story about two great baseball players: Pop Lloyd and Oscar Charleston. They played in the Negro Leagues…

He’s much like the fictional superstar Roy Hobbs in the American Arthurian legend of a baseball book and movie The…

Cam Perron started flipping baseball cards in first grade.

Ernest Fann lives in Birmingham, on a dead-end street down near Valley Creek. As the days go by, and he’s home…

In 1973, the Chicago Defender, a groundbreaking Black newspaper, ran a baseball item based on an interview with a…

“Dihigo was the best all-around baseball player I’ve ever seen.”— Buck Leonard

The following is adapted from the podcast script for Stick to Pods Episode 11, “Josh Gibson,” which originally aired…