In a way, it's like the notion that doing well in school is "acting white." Sure, there are black kids who wind up saying baseball is "a white man's game," and even believing it, but that's not ...

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.

about 600 current Major League Baseball players. They separated out 416 players born in the U.S. who are either black, white, or Latino. To construct a control group, they gathered data from the ...