Officially Licensed - Black College Nines
Black College Nines / Sports - 11oz Mugs
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Historically Black College and University baseball (commonly referred to as HBCU baseball or black college baseball) has been part of the collegiate baseball scene dating back to 1887 when Southern University and Straight University faced off in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Those two black college “nines” (the moniker that was first used in the nineteenth century referencing a baseball team) paved the way for other student-athletes to flourish and move on to have impactful professional careers such as civil rights icons like former NAACP executive directors James Weldon Johnson and Walter White, community leaders, educators and college presidents, as well as Negro League all-time greats like Buck O’Neil, Dave Malarcher, Hilton Smith and Willie Wells, and Major League Baseball Hall of Farmers like Lou Brock and Andre Dawson.
Black College Nines was founded in 2008 with a goal of preserving the legacy of historically black college baseball while promoting current HBCU baseball programs via its website www.blackcollegenines.com