Category : Sports

Joe Gans, by name of Joseph Gaines, (born November 25, 1874, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.—died August 10, 1910, Baltimore), American professional boxer, known as the Old...

The New York Rens were the first all-black fully professional African-American-owned basketball team, formed in Harlem in 1923. That year, basketball manager Robert “Bob” Douglas...

Generally considered to be one of the top shortstops in Negro League history, Pop Lloyd enjoyed a 25-year career in which he regularly batted well...

Monte Irvin was not the first African-American player in the modern major leagues, but of all the talented players who made the perilous trip from...

“If you have ever witnessed the speed of a pebble in a storm, you have not even then seen the equal of the speed possessed...

The team was organized by Rube Foster, known as the father of Negro League Baseball, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame...

Elston Howard, in full Elston Gene Howard, (born February 23, 1929, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.—died December 14, 1980, New York, New York), an American baseball player who was...

A white businessman, he pioneered black baseball as the founder and owner of the Kansas City Monarchs, directing the team’s destiny from the team’s entry...

Except for 1926, when they played in the Negro Southern League, the Black Barons were members of the Negro National League from 1924 through 1930;...

Owned by J.L. Wilkinson, a white businessman, the Monarchs were one of the best known and most successful black teams. The Monarchs captured a total of...