The crowd at the northeast Reading ballpark erupted in cheers as Eddie Day stepped up to bat for the Reading Actives season opener May 3, 1891. As the only Black player on the all-white Actives, Day ...

Before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947, black players weren’t allowed in Major League Baseball. Before the recent advances in the United States’ relationship with Cuba, it was rare for ...

Small-town sports journalists of the early 1950s weren’t in the practice of quoting the athletes they covered—how a receiver felt dropping the game-winning touchdown, if a basketball player knew she’d ...