Those 117 gentlemen should have joined Mariano Rivera as unanimous selections to the None of them did. If anything, I undercounted. I do allow for some honest difference of opinion. Nor am I including ...

In 1958, Williams chaired the Committee to Combat Racial Injustice, which organized to defend two Black boys, ages 7 and 9, ...

A version of this story originally appeared on MiLB.com in 2006. We present it here once more as Minor League Baseball celebrates Black History Month with stories of Black baseball pioneers.

He also caught a no-hitter by Bill Singer in 1970 ... Torborg took over as manager of the Cleveland Indians after Frank Robinson was fired and guided the team into the 1979 season.

Although he reached the World Series as a player ... his baseball acumen by catching the 1965 perfect game thrown by Sandy Koufax and no-hitters thrown by Nolan Ryan in 1970 and Bill Singer ...

He was 16 when he made his debut as a shortstop in an Ebbets Field doubleheader, becoming the youngest position player ... which Jackie Robinson debuted, integrating Major League Baseball.

Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run in ... Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut that season broke baseball’s color barrier. Brown’s daughter recalled ...

LOS ANGELES -- Tommy Brown, the youngest player to hit a home run ... Hall of Fame shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Robinson, whose debut that season broke baseball's color barrier.

Chop Robinson was ... (2006 Defensive Player of the Year), Don Shula (1971 AFC Coach of the Year, 1972 AFC Coach of the Year), Tony Sparano (2008 NFL Coach of the Year), Bill Parcells (2008 ...

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black player in Major League Baseball and embarked ... UCLA fullback Bill Overlin punched the ball in for the game-winning ...