The Summit Historical Society on Wednesday, Aug. 18, will host an event about the history of baseball in Summit County in the early 1900s. Historian Susan Gilmore will tell the tales of games of ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — When the Occidentals, Utah’s all-Black baseball team, formed during the early 1900s, it pre-dated the National Negro Leagues by roughly 20 years. Additionally, the team would ...

For more than 150 years, baseball has captured the hearts of fans everywhere. A local independent baseball historian is obsessed with it. Chris Hansen found little-known information from the early ...

In the early 1900s, baseball wasn’t a game for everyone, Black players were not allowed to play in the major Leagues, Jim Crow laws and the strong racial segregation following the Civil War put many ...

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Baseball, America’s favorite pastime, has left unanswered questions as to who invented the beloved game. Baseball has been around since the 1840s, possibly even earlier, and there has been much ...

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In the rolling countryside along the western edge of the Catskill Mountains, baseball enthusiasts are playing the game like it was played back in the day — way, way back in the day. Welcome to vintage ...