I found this amazing article from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Monday July 16) discussing a Black Tie Gala to honor some players of the Negro Baseball League. The best part of the article were the photographs including this one that shows Satchel Paiges daughter, Pamela Paige O’Neal. When I think of how much celebration is being [...]
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 Contact: Adam Miles 2022252865 adam.miles@mail.house.gov Negro Leagues Baseball Museum receives national designation Congressman Moore co-sponsors legislation officially designating museum as America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (WASHINGTON, D.C.) — On Monday, the United States House of Representatives approved legislation designating the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) in [...]
UNIVERSITY PARK — Willie Fordham, Jim Weedon and Dan Werner spent more than an hour before Sunday’s State College Spikes game against the Brooklyn Cyclones describing the conditions they endured to play baseball. Too bad the players lounging on the leather furniture, munching on fresh fruit and watching television didn’t stop by Porter Gardens for [...]
The first black professional ballplayer played second base for an all-white team in New Castle, Pennsylvania. That player, John W. (Bud) Fowler, was born in 1854 to freedmen parents. Ironically, he was born in Cooperstown, New York, where professional baseball has its museum and Hall of Fame. Fowler was the first of more than thirty [...]
It’s the seventh inning stretch. Everyone is on their feet to sing, “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”, but instead the fans are about to be entertained by a gospel quartet and hear a remarkable story of faith and perseverance about a school located 20 miles southeast of Jackson, Mississippi; the Piney Woods Country Life [...]