The historic site of Major League Baseball's special regular-season game on June 20 isn't a mythical cornfield dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter. It's an actual field of dreams that has featured ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Four years ago, Major League Baseball made the decision to recognize ...

Satchel Paige grew up in a section of Mobile known as “Down the Bay,” learned to pitch while spending nearly six years in the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law-breakers in Mount Meigs, and ...

Major League Baseball is paying tribute to the Negro Leagues and Hall of Famer Willie Mays with minor-league and major-league games played this week at legendary Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Monday in the Major Leagues was supposed to feature a series of tributes at big-league games for the Negro Leagues’ centennial. Those events couldn’t take place as scheduled because the 2020 MLB ...

Having won the vote, the Southern Negro must now decide what to do with it. In eight counties of Alabama’s Black Belt, Negroes are divided over how to use their new power. The Democratic primaries ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 16, 1956 (UP) - Another defendant has been added to the list of more than 90 Negroes who go on trial Monday on charges of boycotting the city bus line, authorities reported ...