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A Game That Refuses to Forget
C. J. Stewart, former Chicago Cub Outfielder and founder of L.E.A.D.
“In the age of erasure, Safe at Home is a refusal.”
On a cloudy August morning at Georgia Tech’s Russ Chandler Stadium, the 11th Annual Safe at Home baseball game unfolded—not just as a sporting event, but as a living metaphor for what it means to hold space for Black youth in a nation increasingly hostile to their futures.
Before the Spotlight
Before the press conferences, endorsements, and photo ops, Black college baseball was already alive. It moved with grit. It breathed in overlooked dugouts and echoed across Southern diamonds, where Black kids played the game not for visibility but for legacy.
Long before former Major League players stepped into the spotlight to “elevate the profile” of Black college baseball, some of us were already documenting, advocating for, and amplifying its proper rhythm. I was there. Not watching from the bleachers, but writing from within the dust.
Seventy-Eight Years Later Barriers Going Up Again
The Jackie Robinson Museum ©2025 Harold Michael Harvey
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.
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.
HBCU Baseball in the Spotlight this Week
FAMU baseball team celebrating 2023 SWAC Baseball Championship victory (c)2023 Harold Michael Harvey
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.