Whatever the odds might have been for either World Series team, a more serious story bubbling underneath the surface going into the season was the small number of African-American players and ...

He peeks in the dugout, scans the outfield and takes inventory around the infield during batting practice, counting how many African-Americans ... resources and professional teams dangling signing ...

In it, Stiviano asked, “Do you know that you have a whole team that ... from other professional sports leagues’ makeups. In 2013, 76.3 percent of NBA players were African-American.

It was one of thousands of fragile West Point nitrate images he had retrieved from ... the image that popped up showed a team of all African American players. But the U.S. Military Academy did ...

Robinson’s integration into Major League Baseball in 1947 ... opened doors for future generations of African American athletes to compete in professional sports. His impact went far beyond ...