In the 1980s, collectors tried to solve the mystery of who made a series of red, black and cream-colored pitchers shaped like animals and birds. They were all marked “hand painted Erphila” in ...

Leroy "Satchel" Paige is the first Black pitcher to play in the American League and is known for being one of the greatest pitchers of all time. While his exact birth date is unknown, he was born ...

In the tight-knit Black baseball community in Atlanta, word of Church’s live arm quickly got back to former MLB pitcher Marvin Freeman, who runs a baseball-related youth foundation and is key in ...

PLAINFIELD -- Before he died eight years ago, Joe Black, the first black pitcher to win a World Series game asked that his ashes be scattered on the Plainfield High School field where he was first ...

Those who know Black say it’s his ability to empathize, teach, communicate and motivate that makes him a player’s manager, and most specifically, a pitchers’ manager. “In a lot of ways ...