by The Players Alliance | Jul 11, 2021 | Articles, News
“CC Sabathia is among the last of a dying breed across baseball. The former Yankees hurler retired following the 2019 season with 251 career wins, 3,577 innings and 3,404 strikeouts, ending his career with a statistical résumé that may never be matched again....
by The Players Alliance | May 13, 2021 | Articles, News
“Each year, April 15 marks a profoundly important date on MLB’s calendar: Jackie Robinson Day, which commemorates the anniversary of Robinson’s 1947 major-league debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers, which brought a tragically belated end to the color...
by The Players Alliance | Jan 21, 2021 | Articles, News
“Standing before a packed, rapt congregation at St. Luke’s Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized the moment’s weight and its fragility. The date was May 6, 1963. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference were five...
by The Players Alliance | Dec 17, 2020 | Articles, News
“The term “inflection point” became so common this summer that it almost became a cliche in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police and protests across the country demanding justice, police reform and recognition of the lived reality of...
by The Players Alliance | Dec 15, 2020 | Articles, News
“On Saturday afternoon, a black tractor-trailer truck will rumble from one down-and-out neighborhood in Baltimore to another down-and-out neighborhood in Washington, a journey about baseball and the Black experience. The final month of 2020 is here, and thank...
by The Players Alliance | Nov 2, 2020 | Articles, News
“When this year’s minor league season was canceled, several veteran African-American M.L.B. players got on Instagram and set up Zoom calls to pay forward the guidance they received. Early in his major league career, Curtis Granderson never went hungry around...
