baseball

MLB pulls All-Star game from Georgia over new voter suppression law

April 6, 2021 By Al Neal

The long, pandemic-filled winter months capping off the surreal year of 2021 are settling in behind us. Spring is in the air. And with it comes our favorite national pastime: Baseball.

Major league baseball integrated in 1947, now it’ll integrate its record book

December 18, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

This newspaper’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Black press led the campaign for integrating white major and minor league baseball.

Baseball rewrites history, says Negro Leagues now a major league

December 17, 2020 By Associated Press

“It is MLB’s view that the Committee’s 1969 omission of the Negro Leagues from consideration was clearly an error that demands today’s designation,” the league said in a statement.

Minor League baseball players get a SCOTUS win; voting rights a loss

October 6, 2020 By Al Neal

It makes sense that absolutely nothing makes sense.

St. Louis Cardinals’ speedster, and hall of fame outfielder, Lou Brock, dies at 81

September 8, 2020 By Associated Press

While traditional labor organizing is extremely difficult, inclusion of more-essential-than-ever workers can help grow the labor movement.