The Country Needs a Jackie Robinson Moment

Seventy-Eight Years Later Barriers Going Up Again

Sometime around age five, I fell in love with baseball. It was during the 1955 White Major League Baseball season. Admittedly, at the time, I did not know that there was a baseball league for Negroes. I still love the game today. Baseball has given me so much pleasure, whether playing baseball on the sandlots of Macon, Georgia, or chasing down fly balls in Washington Field at Tuskegee Institute. My happiest days have been playing or watching a baseball game on a diamond or in the stands. read more

Book Review: The Duke of 18th & Vine

Bob Kendrick Pitches Negro League Baseball by Harold Michael Harvey

Harold Michael Harvey’s “The Duke of 18th & Vine: Bob Kendrick Pitches Negro League Baseball” is a captivating and insightful exploration of the rich history and enduring legacy of Negro League Baseball. Through the lens of Bob Kendrick, the charismatic president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Harvey brings to life the stories of the players, teams, and communities that shaped this vital chapter in American sports history. read more

FAMU Looks to Repeat As SWAC Baseball Champions

HBCU Baseball in the Spotlight this Week

ATLANTA, Georgia – The Southwest Athletic Conference, the nation’s premiere Black College Baseball Conference, kicks off its championship tourney this week at Russ Chandler Stadium on the campus of Georgia Tech in downtown Atlanta. read more

Tuskegee Institute is The First HBCU Baseball Team to compete in NCAA Regionals:

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Alabama State University Poised to Win SWAC Baseball Championship

For the Second Year in a row

The Alabama State University Hornets are poised to repeat as SWAC baseball champions and received an automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Playoffs. The East Alabama school rolls into the 2023 Southwest Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament as the number one seed from the Eastern Division, riding an impressive 39-16 overall record and a conference record of 24-7 into Russ Chandler Stadium, home of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. read more

Henry Aaron Bust Finds a Home at Adams Park

Just Three Miles From His Southwest Atlanta Home

In 2017, the Atlanta Braves packed up and moved the team twenty miles north of Turner Field, less than a mile outside the city limits, but clear into the next county. Turner Field had been home to the Braves since the 1996 Olympics gifted the team a new stadium. read more

David Jackson’s Legacy of Love

Built One Dollar at a Time

One day during the summer of 2017, I drove to the Georgia State University Baseball Complex. A friend had told me about Mentoring Viable Prospects (MVP), an enormously popular baseball tournament serving primarily Black high school baseball players that had been in existence since the turn of the century. Teams traveled from Virginia, Florida, Texas, Chicago, California, and Detroit to showcase their skills to primarily black college baseball recruiters. read more

Morehouse Wins First Game of Weekend Series Against Tuskegee

Braves World Series Trophy Tour to Highlight Sunday’s Double Hitter

The Maroon Tigers of Morehouse College won their first game since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down baseball at the premiere all-male HBCU on Saturday, defeating Tuskegee University 8–4.

Saturday’s game was the prelude for a weekend series that will feature a display of the Atlanta Braves 2021 World Series Trophy before the start of the double hitter on Sunday. Morehouse Coach Antonio Grissom expects the Braves trophy tour to bring over 2000 fans out to see the World Series trophy and the Morehouse-Tuskegee clash on the diamond. read more

Jackie Robinson Marker Finds a New Home

Marker in Robinson’s Georgia Hometown Damaged by Vandals

Like fellow Georgian, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Robinson was a peacemaker. Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, on January 31, 1919, nearly 13 months before Andrew Foster organized the United States Baseball League, a league for Negro players, designed to compete with the White major league for the heart of baseball fans in America. The organizational meeting took place at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. read more

A Life-Long Dream Manifesting for Two Black College Baseball Coaches

Marcus Smith and James Cooper Stepping into Their Dreams

Growing up in College Park, Georgia, Marcus Smith enjoyed playing baseball. It was a sport he excelled in, playing out of Old National Park from age six to fourteen. He earned an athletic scholarship to Albany State University, his mom’s alma mater. Like anyone who has ever played baseball as a kid, the thoughts of a professional career floated through Smith’s head. read more