In his book A House of Cards: Baseball Card Collecting and Popular Culture, John Bloom states that baseball cards are “all at once, commercial artifacts, forms of visual media, advertising mechanisms, ...

Professional baseball player, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on this day in 1919. As the first African American to play Major League Baseball in the modern era, Robinson broke the color line by ...

This month Major League Baseball is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color line in baseball. In those six decades since he first walked onto the field wearing the ...

Introduction: Latinos play America's game -- A national game emerges -- Early maneuvers -- Holding the line -- Baseball should follow the flag -- "Purest bars of Castilian soap" -- Making Cuban stars ...