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Minor League Baseball to do outreach in Black communities | 2022-02-02 08:23:56

With Black History Month beginning, MiLB is launching “The Nine,” a Black-community focused outreach platform to honor and celebrate Black baseball pioneers.

With youth programs and family resources, the CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation is ensuring her community thrives, especially through the pandemic.

Shakeia Taylor is a writer based in Chicago. Her work focuses on the intersection of Black culture and sport in America.

June 16th, 2021 share-square-247637 PHOENIX — The Arizona Diamondbacks (@Dbacks, @LosDbacks) will celebrate Juneteenth, which honors the ending of slavery in the United States, this Saturday at Chase Field with a pregame ceremony to cap off a series of events this week. Earlier today, members of the front office enjoyed a private viewing of the movie “The Other Boys of Summer,” a documentary about civil rights, racism and segregation in America told through the lives of Negro League baseb...

Ex-employee cost Boys & Girls Clubs $160K+ in theft, fraud schemes Man accused of embezzling over $150K from Boys & Girls Club A former employee of the nonprofit is accused of embezzling from 2012 to 2018, according to a complaint. MILWAUKEE - A former Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee (BGCGM) employee embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization from 2012 to 2018, a criminal complaint states. Miguel Green, 54, of Milwaukee now faces a number of theft, fraud and embezz...

February 23rd, 2021 share-square-411279 The New Orleans MLB Youth Academy, which is operated by Major League Baseball, and Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), a Historically Black College & University (HBCU) in New Orleans, have partnered to help launch the university’s 2021 baseball and softball seasons in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). This season marks the first-time baseball will be offered at Xavier since 1960, and the first-ever softball program in scho...

February 1st, 2021 share-square-599773 Major League Baseball, its Clubs, and media entities (MLB Network and MLB.com) will observe Black History Month 2021 in a variety of ways, across our sport, with the following goals in mind: • To meaningfully engage and support African American people, institutions, and communities across the nation; • To celebrate and recognize the rich history of African Americans in baseball; and • To showcase the voices of African American youth, professional pla...

share-square-541867 MINNEAPOLIS -- "Fun is good," the St. Paul Saints say. The Twins new Triple-A affiliate made sure fans knew that during their history as an independent team. There are the between-innings sumo suits, of course, and the zany costumed dancers on the dugouts and around the field. Dont forget the tire-rolling competitions, the eyeball races, the "ushertainers" who rile up the crowds. Oh, and try and find another organization that annually crowdsources a name for an actual ball p...