The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the Nat

It's been more than a century since Connecticut had big league baseball, but in the 1870s, Middletown, Hartford, and New Haven fielded professional teams that c

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black respons

In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of

Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again. Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Did baseball even have a father--or did it just evolve from