Knoxville baseball legends such as Claude "Steel Arm" Dickey and Forrest “One Wing” Maddox are immortalized at Covenant ...

"I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a White sport. I feel like White people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds," he told The ...

“I don’t want to say this. Baseball is a white sport. I feel like white people criticize everything that a black man does. Black men are outspoken. They say what’s on their minds,” he told ...

Statues unveiled April 8 at Covenant Health Park pay homage to the history of Black baseball in Knoxville ... up in about the same spot. The James White Parkway was built in 1978 between the ...

For six decades, baseball was segregated. White team owners followed unwritten rules, called the “gentlemen’s agreement,” under which they agreed to not sign Black players. Knoxville had ...

While his colourful approach to the game has drawn plenty of criticism, Chisholm says that it’s the colour of his skin that is big issue in a sport where there are fewer Black athletes every year. “I ...

Chisholm said, via The Athletic: “I don’t want to say this — baseball is a white sport. I feel like white people criticize everything that a Black man does. Black men are outspoken.

Was Robinson picked over more talented Negro League players to integrate baseball ... pleasant and unoffending Black heroes against cartoonishly mean and ignorant white people.