Born in Calvert, Texas to an American Methodist Episcopal minister and his wife in 1879, Foster became a baseball star, and as a young man gained the reputation as one of the hardest throwing pitchers ...

Every year, Major League Baseball celebrates Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier. On April 15, 1947, Robinson debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers to become the first African American to play ...

The Negro National League was established in 1920 by Andrew "Rube" Foster at a time when American baseball was racially segregated to exclude Black players from the major and minor leagues.