The Legendary New York Black Yankees Negro League Baseball Team In Harlem 1936 – 1948
The New York Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City, Paterson, NJ, and Rochester, NY that played from 1936 to 1948.
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Baseball’s Satchel Paige With The New York Black Yankees In Harlem, 1941
With complete swagger in motion is one of baseball’s most charismatic cats, Satchel Paige. After he played baseball in Puerto Rico with the Brujos de Guayama (the Guayama Witch Doctors) Continue Reading →
New York And Sports: Why Is It Considered The World’s Sporting Capital?
Earlier this year, New York claimed a tremendous sporting accolade for the second year in a row – BCW ranked the city as the world’s ‘sporting capital,’ beating London, England Continue Reading →
Polo Grounds Stadium Nears Coogans Hollow, Harlem, New York, 1953
The Polo Grounds Stadium opened in 1889 when the New York Giants moved to Coogans Hollow, a meadow below Coogans Bluff.
Coogan’s Bluff, The Home Of The Polo Grounds And The New York Giants 1893
Coogan’s Bluff is a promontory near the western shore of the Harlem River in the Washington Heights of Upper Manhattan.
Harriet Kimbro-Hamilton’s New Book Honors Black Baseball Heroes From Her Father And More
The daughter of black baseball legend Henry Kimbro has spent the past year writing a new book to help commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Baseball Negro League in Nashville.
Mayor de Blasio Announces Partnership With NY Yankees To Strike Out The COVID-19
Mayor de Blasio today announced that the New York Yankees will partner with the NYC Test & Trace Corps to promote free COVID-19 testing across the city.
More Than Most, Yankees Will Pine For Sports’ Restart
By Bretton Love “There have been other scares before, but they weren’t worldwide. This is so important, so vital to us as human beings because, if we don’t stop it, Continue Reading →
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