Cardinals uniform historian Oliver Kodner takes a hard look at the NLB throwbacks to be worn at Rickwood.
5 months ago

Bell played for three of the greatest teams in Negro League history, the St. Louis Stars of 1928-1931, the Pittsburgh Crawfords of 1932-1936, and the Homestead...
52 months ago

With the infield dirt on the wrong side of dry and a breeze flapping his jersey, Veeck clocked Bell around the bases at 13.1 seconds. The world...
40 months ago

Major League Baseball will announce the results of a more than three-year research endeavor into integrating Negro Leagues stats in MLB's database.
6 months ago

The legend goes that while in the Negro Leagues, James Taylor Bell, also known as “Cool Papa” Bell, bet a teammate he could get under the...
9 months ago

STARKVILLE – One of the greatest baseball players of all time and Starkville's own James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell will be honored with the...
42 months ago

Joe Posnanski will count down the 100 greatest baseball players by publishing an essay on a player every day for 100 days.
59 months ago

According to this metric, Bell ranks as the third fastest negro leaguer of all-time and the sixth fastest overall in his era (1905-46).
147 months ago

Satchel Paige, Cool Papa Bell and others played in Alberta and will be in the MLB's record book after the league announced it will absorb...
6 months ago

James Thomas Bell was born May 17, 1903, in Starkville, Mississippi. He later said that his mother was mostly of Native American descent while his father was...
42 months ago