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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".
The integration of Major League Baseball happened at the beginning of the 1947 MLB season when Jackie Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. By the 1950s, enough black talent had integrated into the formerly "white" leagues (both major and minor) that the Negro leagues themselves had become a minor league circuit.
This list of major Negro league baseball teams consists of teams that played in the seven major Negro baseball leagues.For a league to be considered "major," there were usually two top-tier leagues at a time: one representing the northeastern states – known as the "East", and one representing the north-central states – known as the "West".
Similar to how MLB determines qualifiers for statistical leaders, a similar formula was used to decide which players qualified for MLB leaderboards. Negro Leagues legend and Baseball Hall of Famer ...
MLB confirmed Tuesday that Negro Leagues statistics will officially become a part of MLB's historical record Wednesday. The move will open the door for 2,300 Negro Leagues players to have their ...
Major League Baseball announces it will recognize the Negro Leagues as a major league, with their records and statistics becoming part of MLB history.
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 ...
Now, players active in seven different segregated leagues between 1920-1948 will be recognized alongside white players from the same era in the MLB record books. MLB finally recognizes the Negro ...