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Andrew "Rube" Foster (September 17, 1879 – December 9, 1930) was an American baseball player, manager, and executive in the Negro leagues. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981.
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.
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.
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Major League Baseball announced plans to blend Negro Leagues statistics into its record book, and no player’s proverbial on-paper resume will benefit more than Gibson, who now owns a handful of ...
MLB stats that changed after Negro Leagues integration. Negro Leagues players are italicized. Career batting average. Josh Gibson — .372 Ty Cobb — .367 Oscar Charleston — .363 Rogers Hornsby ...
The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. At first the league operated mainly in midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south , adding franchises in Birmingham, Alabama , and Memphis, Tennessee .
Negro Leagues legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson will become MLB’s single-season record holder in batting average (.466 in 1943), slugging percentage (.974 in 1937) and OPS (1.474 in ...