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1500m Simeon Birnbaum Last time out: Birnbaum is coming off a semifinal win in the West First Round after lowering his prelim time of 3:41.36... The Women of Oregon will head back to Hayward Field ...

David Shuffler is not a baseball historian. He never worked in the game. He didn’t play, manage or coach; nor has he been credentialed as media. He is not a member of a college faculty, teacher or ...

The wind moves quietly across the grass at Cyrus Greene Park. Today, it looks like any other neighborhood field. But historians say it is anything but ordinary. “Cyrus Greene Park in East Tampa is one ...

Youth baseball can bring a town together, as has happened for two weeks while the Little League World Series played out in Williamsport, Pa. Eight teams from America. Eight international teams. That’s ...

Step inside “Blackball: Baseball, BBQ & Blues” at the Houston Freedmen’s Town Conservancy — an exhibit uncovering the powerful and often untold history of Black baseball in Houston. From segregation ...

A piece of sports history dating back to the 1867 meeting that institutionalized racial segregation in professional baseball is heading to the auction block.Among the items up for sale by Saco River ...

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NPR's Scott Simon talks to Lydia Teasley of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring baseball's past and her father Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history in the Negro Leagues. During ...

During the decades in which professional baseball was segregated, there were the Negro Leagues and the so-called major leagues. I say so-called because was it really a major league without major stars ...