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This list of Negro league baseball teams is split into two pages, one listing the major league Negro teams and one listing the minor league and traveling Negro teams. Some teams are included in both lists.
Select a Team. The 16 featured teams below were selected after consultation with John Thorn, the Official Historian for MLB, and other Negro Leagues experts. More teams will be added regularly as we seek to preserve and honor those who helped define the Negro Leagues, and its impact on the game.
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro Major Leagues".
The following teams played at least one partial season in one of the major Negro leagues. Some teams also played as either a barnstorming (or traveling) team, a minor league team or a team that existed after the integration of Major League Baseball (1946) when the talent level declined dramatically.
There are currently seven Negro Leagues presented as major leagues on Baseball Reference. This is consistent with the decision of SABR's Negro Leagues Task Force in February 2021 and Major League Baseball's announcement in December 2020.
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As Major League Baseball officially incorporates verified Negro Leagues statistics into its official record, the great Mays, who suited up for the 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, gets 10 hits added to his ledger, bringing him to 3,293.
Negro League Teams Index. From the 1880s to 1950 literally hundreds of all-black, professional and semi-professional baseball teams played throughout the United States.
