With a passion for graphic design and an eye for what’s trending on the local scene, Khutso Ngoepe, AKA Instagram’s @khutsotheplug, is creating the sort of visual work that most art graduates can only ...

Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Gift Ngoepe, the first African player to play MLB, said his heart was beating 1,000 times a minute as he prepared for his first at-bat in the majors, a single. News ...

PITTSBURGH - Gift Ngoepe walks into the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse and his heart races, looking all around the room as if he’s inside the Louvre, trying to grasp the enormity of it all.

Pittsburgh Pirates infielder Gift Ngoepe, pronounced 'N-Gweh-Peh' for the uninitiated, has been a big talking point this Major League Baseball season, becoming the first African to play in the majors.

After nine years in the minors, Mpho’ “Gift” Ngoepe got to play in a major league game. Sports history, yes. World history, too. There have been major league players from North, South and ...

Although part of the gathering, 17-year-old Khutso Ngoepe did not know why he was there. Nor did he know what the crowd had gathered at the square for. The only reason he was there, he said ...

PITTSBURGH -- Gift Ngoepe might not have had the weight of the world on his shoulders but he felt like a continent was counting on him. Ngoepe, the first African to reach the major leagues ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gift Ngoepe was aware of the significance of the moment when he put on his Pittsburgh Pirates uniform for the first time in the regular season. The Pirates recalled the ...

Ngoepe has been suspended by the Pirates following his arrest early Sunday after an altercation outside a Toledo bar. Ngoepe was suspended seven days and will miss the remainder of the Triple-A ...

The clubhouse was Gift Ngoepe's home, an equipment storeroom his bedroom. The field, where the beginnings of his road to baseball history started, was his backyard. Never mind that Ngoepe's field ...