While some users remembered Ruth and praised the legend in the comments, others highlighted that he died of cancer and smoked a lot. Ruth made the calls even before hitting some of his own home runs.

Throughout the history of baseball, there have been some very nice, clean uniforms. However, there have also been some really, really bad ones. From yellow and green to brown and red, some of the ...

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Race and the color line have played a central role in baseball history. One of the most well-known stories of the game’s past is Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the color line in 1947. Every year, Major ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three years in the making, you can now see more than 200 hand-painted portraits of Negro Leagues players and key figures at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. The exhibit called ...

The most significant moment in Major League Baseball history took place on April 15, 1947 when Jackie Robinson made his Major League debut and forever broke the baseball color barrier.

Jackie Robinson was the first non-white baseball player to make a team. In 1946, the entire league was White, but in 1947 that all changed. Branch Rickey, the then-Brooklyn Dodgers executive, decided ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jackie Robinson was the ...

“Baseball needed Jackie Robinson to succeed — and so did the United States as a whole,” says actor Chadwick Boseman, who plays Robinson in “42,” opening Friday. “It definitely would have set baseball ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Earlier this month, the Seattle Mariners fired their manager, Lloyd McClendon, the ...

It was 100 years ago Monday that two new players took to the field for baseball's Cincinnati Reds. Both were born in Cuba, and were among the first Latinos to play in the big leagues. Rob Ruck, author ...