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Baseball’s Outsiders: Race and Gender in the Early Years, September 7, 2019
On Saturday, September 7 at 2 pm, join Dr. Leslie Heaphy for an enlightening afternoon highlighting both women’s baseball before 1915 and 19th century black baseball in New Jersey. In the 1890’s daring “bloomer girls” played baseball while the National…
Read MoreThe Color Line on the Baseball Diamond, August 22, 2019
On Thursday, August 22 at 6:30 p.m. (Doors open 6:00 p.m., join historian and film producer Dr. Lawrence Hogan, Negro league’s last team Captain of the Kansas City Monarchs and All Star James Robinson, and poet Kevin Kane for a…
Read MoreSmithsonian Curator Weighs in on Cleveland Indians’ Decision to Retire ‘Racist’ Logo
Paul Chaat Smith, one of the curators of “Americans,” a new exhibit at Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian is unambiguous in his thoughts about Chief Wahoo, the symbol which, it was recently announced, will be removed from the Cleveland Indians baseball…
Read MoreIndians to stop using Wahoo logo starting in ’19
Major League Baseball announced that the Indians will discontinue the use of the divisive logo on their uniforms after the 2018 campaign. The decision was made mutually by MLB and the team, which had been working together to come up…
Read MoreRacial Slurs Shouted At Orioles Player In Boston
This segment describes slurs directed at the Orioles outfielder Adam Jones. The “progressive city” is still dealing with its racist history. The Red Sox was the last major league baseball team to desegregate.
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