PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his moonshot home runs when he met Buck O’Neil, a champion of Black ballplayers ...

to discuss plans for a professional Black baseball league. To their surprise, Foster came in with the papers, signaling that the Negro National League (NNL) was official. Celebrations honor Willie ...

(WOOD) — May 2, 2025, is the first day Michigan is celebrating Negro Leagues Day after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill in June 2024 to uplift the historic accomplishments of Black baseball ...

O’Neil, who died in 2006, was long a champion of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Howard, who won an NL MVP and a World Series with the Phillies, is ready to take up O ...

O'Neil, who died in 2006, was long a champion of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Howard, who won an NL MVP and a World Series with the Phillies, is ready to take up O ...

FILE - Former Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard smiles before a ceremony honoring him before a baseball game between the Phillies and the Washington Nationals, July 14, 2019, in Philadelphia.

It was great, just hearing the stories from and just being in his presence.” O’Neil, who died in 2006, long was a champion of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Howard, who ...

Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice with his ... as a modern-day Josh Gibson, one of the Negro Leagues greatest players who hit ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ryan Howard was a rookie with the Philadelphia Phillies just putting baseball on notice ... one of the Negro Leagues' greatest players, who hit .466 for the 1943 Homestead ...