With Black History Month beginning today, Minor League Baseball teams are launching The Nine, a new, Black-community focused outreach platform to honor and celebrate the historic impact numerous Black baseball pioneers made on the sport. (more…)
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Celebrating all the pioneers during Black History Month
Jackie Robinson is rightly revered as a pioneering figure in baseball’s integration. But he was not alone and, as Jesse Goldberg-Strassler notes, pioneers like Buck O’Neil and Emmett Ashford deserve recognition from baseball fans during Black History Month. In an AP story from March 18, 1962, titled innocently “Cubs Assign Coaches for Farm Clubs,” the […]