The Washington Nationals will host Negro Leagues Night at Nationals Park on Wednesday, June 18, teaming up the Josh Gibson Foundation to recognize the achievements of the Homestead Grays and Black ...

Between 1889 and 1923, the Pittsburgh Pirates and their predecessor, the Alleghenies, as well as the Pittsburgh Crawfords and ...

Josh Gibson: Gibson was born in Georgia but moved ... Negro League World Series titles as a longtime member of the Homestead Grays. Jack Ham: Ham, a Johnstown native, is on the Penn State football ...

Left to right: Alfred Walker, playing Negro Leagues star Josh Gibson, Denyce Graves ... the founder and owner of the Negro League’s Homestead Grays. At age 19 he started playing professional baseball ...

Josh Gibson: A larger-than-life legend Before all that, though, he was a teenager plying his trade on the Pittsburgh semipro circuit ... until, on July 25, 1930, he became a Gray by accident.

Hitting a baseball off an MLB pitcher is pretty widely regarded as one of the hardest things — if not the absolute hardest ...

For the last 156 years, professional baseball has been deeply embedded in the culture of Cincinnati. In 1869, the Cincinnati ...