The remaining seven players, who arrived a few minutes later, ate and napped during the first game so they could play in the second. The Black Yankees won both games. What other events have the ...

Hart was honoring his great-uncle, Yankees legend Elston Howard, the first Black player to play for the organization, in 1955, eight years after Jackie Robinson broke the MLB color barrier for the ...

Almost exactly eight years later, Elston Howard stepped out for the Yankees on April 14, 1955, to become the organization's first Black player in the major league. Howard was signed by the Yankees ...

The remaining seven players, who arrived a few minutes later, ate and napped during the first game so they could play in the second. The Black Yankees won both games. What other events have the ...