Via SI.com, an article on a pioneering MLB managerial job intereview:
Interviewing an assistant coach from an incumbent coaching staff for a managerial opening certainly isn't unusual. However, the Giants stepped into [...]
October
10,
2023
Courtesy of The Athletic, a look at a new website that highlights Black and Brown baseball players:
Rob Parker has accomplished a lot in a journalism career that has nearly covered four decades. He’s been on television, [...]
October
9,
2023
Via The Washington Post, an article on a 1948 baseball photo with a radical message of acceptance:
Like Jackie Robinson before him, Larry Doby — the first Black player in baseball’s American League — endured racist [...]
October
1,
2023
Via ESPN, a 30 for 30 documentary short called “Deerfoot of the Diamond” which tells the story of Native American baseball player Louis Sockalexis and his Impact on the sport:
In late 2021, Cleveland’s baseball team was [...]
September
13,
2023
Courtesy of the Washington Post, a report on a racist incident that shook baseball nine years before integration, highlighting baseball’s hypocrisy on race which helped build support for integrating the game:
On a midsummer [...]
Via Bloomberg, a look at how Black baseball players integrated White leagues and brought with them a different philosophy that helped shift the power dynamics between teams and talent:
No matter what happens before Major [...]