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The Negro Southern League was a Negro baseball league organized by Tom Wilson in 1920 [1] as a minor league. Leagues in the depression-era Southern United States were far less organized and lucrative than those in the north, owing to a smaller population base and a lower standard of living. The NSL operated on an irregular basis as each season ...
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: Kansas City: Missouri: 1990 [124] Negro Southern League Museum Birmingham Alabama 2014 [125] New Orleans African American Museum: New Orleans: Louisiana: 1988 [126] Newsome House Museum and Cultural Center: Newport News: Virginia: 1991 [127] Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center: Niagara Falls: New ...
The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League.
Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...
“The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is a tremendous educational resource and is one of the nation’s most important Civil Rights and Social Justice institutions.
Before the Dodgers defeated the Kansas City Royals for their 12th consecutive win, they made a special visit to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
The American Giants were victorious for the Negro National League pennant in 1920, 1921, 1922, 1926, and 1927 and the Negro Southern League pennant in 1932. They hosted Games 7–11 of the 1926 Colored World Series and Games 1–4 of the 1927 Colored World Series , which Chicago won both.
Negro Southern League (1945–51) Team Years in league Notes Atlanta Black Crackers: 1945, 1947–48 • Associate team 1946 • Left for Negro American Association: Knoxville Grays: 1945: Asheville Blues: 1945–47 • Left for Negro American Association: Nashville Cubs: 1945–51 • Called Black Vols 1945-46 • Called Louisville-Nashville ...