The Royals Foundation is sponsoring free admission to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in February, offering expanded access to Black baseball history.
A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball ...
A version of this story previously appeared on MiLB.com in 2007. We present it again as Minor League Baseball celebrates ...
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 ...