Newcombe and Campanella broke ground in Minor Leagues

The same year Jackie Robinson integrated the International League, Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella were being tested -- and bonding -- one rung down the Dodgers' farm system at Nashua.

We’re roughly two months away from Opening Day, but the offseason is in the books as regards one key metric: All new Minor League team names and primary logos have been unveiled. Heading into the 2025 campaign, eight Minor League teams will sport a different look. Check 'em out here.

On the latest edition of The Show Before the Show, the podcast crew discusses Corpus Christi's new look and then interviews Hartford general manager Mike Abramson about his club's two 2025 alternate identities.

Before Minor Leaguers fully committed to baseball, some were also star football players in high school and college. Here's a look at 18 top recruits and statistical standouts from the gridiron.

Tom Brown was the first Super Bowl participant to also have played Minor League Baseball, but he was far from the last. Here's a look at some of the individuals who followed a similarly winding path to football's biggest stage.

The 1977 Triple-A New Orleans Pelicans, who called the Superdome home, arrived with a Mardi Gras-style parade featuring horse-drawn carriages, jazz bands and legends like Daffy Dean, Stan Musial and Satchel Paige as well as current players in full uniform tossing baseball trinkets to fans while riding on decorated floats.

Between 1931 and 1975, a "Junior" or "Little" World Series often took place between the best upper-level teams in Minor League Baseball. Perhaps the most notable such series took place in 1946, when Jackie Robinson's International League champion Montreal Royals defeated the American Association's Louisville Colonels, four games to two.