Negro League Baseball
Baseball Hall of Famer Pete Hill gets a new plaque
Oct 12, 2010 17:01 EDT
New research leads to a new plaque for Hall of Famer Pete Hill, a former Negro Leagues star. Ron Hill stared at the shiny plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame gallery and sighed.
Negro Leagues baseball featured on new stamps
Jul 15, 2010 16:06 EDT
Stamps honor players from Negro Leagues baseball; unveiling at museum in Kansas City. Almost all of them are gone now, fading memories kept alive through grainy photos and dog-eared newspaper clippings their children and grandchildren keep near.
New stamps to honor Negro League baseball
Jul 13, 2010 17:57 EDT
New stamps let Negro League baseball score once again, at least for a day. The Negro Leagues take the baseball field again on Thursday as the Postal Service honors the organizations that gave black players a chance to show their talents before the major leagues were integrated.
Correction
Jul 03, 2010 20:00 EDT
A photo caption in FridayÕs Sun mistakenly reported that baseball player William ÒBig BillÓ Gatewood played in the Negro leagues from 1906 to 1982. He played through 1928.
Hart hits 2 HRs, drives in 6 in Brewers win
May 29, 2010 22:54 EDT
Hart hits 2 HRs, drives in 6 as Brewers beat road worn Mets 8-6. Corey Hart hit a grand slam and a two-run homer in his first two times up to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-6 victory over the New York Mets on Saturday night.
Mother Teresa, Gene Autry on upcoming US stamps
Dec 30, 2009 07:46 EST
Upcoming US postage stamps will feature Negro Leagues, Bill Mauldin, Katharine Hepburn. Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.
Mother Teresa, Gene Autry on upcoming US stamps
Dec 30, 2009 07:19 EST
Upcoming US postage stamps will feature Negro Leagues, Bill Mauldin, Katharine Hepburn. Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.
Mother Teresa, Gene Autry on upcoming US stamps
Dec 30, 2009 04:43 EST
Upcoming US postage stamps will feature Negro Leagues, Bill Mauldin, Katharine Hepburn. Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa and Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin will be honored on U.S. postage stamps next year.
103-year-old Navarro throws out first pitch
Jun 20, 2009 22:52 EDT
103-year-old Emilio Navarro throws out first pitch as part of Padres' salute to Negro Leagues. Emilio Navarro still has some accuracy, if not the range.
Baseball's Buck O'Neil Scored
Jun 01, 2009 10:48 EDT
Buck O'Neil devoted years to spotlighting baseball's shadows.
Hustle & Flow Director Reunites With Terrence Howard For Charley Pride BioPic
Oct 04, 2006 13:00 EDT
Brewer has reunited with Howard to chronicle the life of country singer Charley Pride in a Paramount Pictures biopic that is to be filmed in Memphis, reports The Commercial Appeal, a Memphis daily newspaper.
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