Barnstormers Travelling Teams

During the baseball season Negro League players were not allowed to play ball with the the Major League players the off-season was quite different. Players from the Major Leagues would get up a team and players from the Negro Leagues would get a team together, head south and then play on the same ballfield as [...]

Rube Foster, a star pitcher for several African American teams, desired a baseball league for blacks that would challenge the white major leagues and eventually force full recognition and inclusion of African American ballplayers.   With partner John Schorling, Foster formed in 1911 the Chicago American Giants, setting the foundation for the creation of a [...]