(Editor’s note: During the month of February, The Athletic will highlight each member of the Black Aces, the 15 Black pitchers from either the United States or Canada to win 20 games in a Major League ...

The mid-to-late 1960s are fairly regarded as a pretty brutal time in Yankees’ history. CBS infamously purchased the team in 1964, and the team almost immediately began to fall off a cliff. Between ...

Big Al Downing, a versatile musician who freely crossed musical and racial borders to become one of the few African American headliners in country music, died July 4 of acute leukemia at a hospital in ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Alphonso "Al" Downing (b. 1941) ...

Over 33 years since he threw his last major-league pitch and nearly a half-century since he left Trenton to pursue a professional career, Al Downing remains a keen and opinionated observer of the game ...

” Big ” Al Downing, a versatile musician who freely crossed musical and racial borders to become one of the few African-American headliners in country music, died Monday of acute leukemia at a ...