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The torpedo is the talk of 2025, but bat experiments have changed baseball and created controversy for 150 years.
1947 — Jackie Robinson becomes first black player of the 20th century to sign an MLB contract. 1949 — Sam Snead wins the Masters, beating Lloyd Mangrum and Johnny Bulla by three strokes.
Knoxville baseball legends such as Claude "Steel Arm" Dickey and Forrest “One Wing” Maddox are immortalized at Covenant ...
City leaders will join with Boyd Sports and the Knoxville Smokies baseball team to unveil seven bronze statues on the east ...
Here are seven Black female track stars whose legacy has broken down barriers and forever changed the sport. Throughout ...
Murray was a highly regarded sports columnist at the Los Angeles Times and someone who went out of his way to fight for the inclusion of a black player to compete at Augusta National. He boycotted the ...
Telling history is making choices: which stories, which individuals, which details? DEI is part of the selection process.
Today, country music is a genre that is popular worldwide. Although the genre itself in its current form isn’t reflective of its history ...
The world said goodbye last month to someone who made history as the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress. Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, who died after battling brain cancer, didn’t ...
A racially segregated crowd surrounding a Knoxville baseball diamond shared a collective jaw-drop when a one-armed player ...
A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...