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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".
Mar 31, 2024 · Negro league, any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when Black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league baseball. The principal Negro leagues were the Negro National League (1920–31, 1933–48), the Eastern Colored League (1923–28), and the Negro ...
- Robert W. Peterson
The 32 featured players below were selected after consultation with John Thorn, the Official Historian for MLB, and other Negro Leagues experts. More players will be added regularly as we seek to preserve and honor those who helped define the Negro Leagues, and its impact on the game. History of Negro League players and teams.
Apr 13, 2017 · A turning point for Black baseball came in 1920, when Rube Foster founded the Negro National League. It launched with eight teams: Chicago American Giants, Chicago Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton ...
Negro League Baseball remained wildly popular through the 1930s and early 1940s, with an estimated 3 million fans coming to ballparks during the ’42 season. The only event that halted the Negro Leagues’ run of success was something many Black players had desired all along: an invitation to prove themselves in the Majors. The death of ...
Feb 13, 2020 · The Negro Leagues gave black ballplayers their own platform to prove otherwise. On Feb. 13, 1920, Chicago American Giants owner Rube Foster convened a meeting at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City to ...
Jul 10, 2023 · MLB Recognizes Negro Leagues As 'Major League' — Correcting A 'Longtime Oversight'. Pollard's new documentary, The League, tells the story of the Negro League and the way it revolutionized ...
