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By the end of the war in 1919, Foster was again ready to start a Negro baseball league. [citation needed] On February 13 and 14, 1920, talks were held in Kansas City, Missouri, that established the Negro National League and its governing body the National Association of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. [18]
The Negro American League, founded in 1937 and including several of the same teams that played in the original Negro National League, would eventually carry on as the western circuit of black baseball. A second Negro National League was organized in 1933, but eventually became concentrated on the east coast.
The second Negro National League was established in 1933 by Gus Greenlee, an African-American businessman of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, two years after the first Negro National League had disbanded, after the start of the Great Depression. [1] The second Negro National League lasted until 1948, the year after Major League Baseball integrated
The Negro Leagues statistical review committee, comprised of baseball historians, Negro League experts, former players, researchers and journalists, reviewed data, box scores, statistics and ...
Major League Baseball will also honor the Negro Leagues years with a tribute game set for June 20 at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama — the oldest professional baseball ballpark in the U.S ...
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will celebrate the opening of a Black baseball exhibit and honor the Negro Leagues with an All-Star Game over Memorial Day weekend.
Negro National League can refer to either one or both of the two leagues of Negro league baseball in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century: Negro National League (1920–1931) Negro National League (1933–1948)
The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball's color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up until the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with ...