In the first Negro League World Series between the Kansas City Monarchs (NNL) and the Philadelphia Hilldales, the Monarchs won the series in ten games.
Kansas City, Missouri
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Beginning in 1932, African-American baseball players tried to reestablish a league. The Negro National League (1933-1948) founded by W. A. “Gus” Greenlee and the Negro American League founded by H. G. Hall (1937-1960) emerged as the most important leagues in the last years of segregated baseball. In 1942, in the first Negro World Series since […]
Toni Stone was the first African-American woman to play in the Negro Leagues, on the men’s Indianapolis Clowns team.
Negro Leagues Baseball, 1953
Indianapolis, Indiana
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Branch Rickey, a white man well-known in the history books for baseball called The Negro Leagues “a racket.” He said that they were more interested in entertaining than in playing baseball. But the talented baseball players of the Negro Leagues had a flamboyant style of play. At times they had issues of instability and exhbited […]
The Baltimore Black Sox were an independent team in 1916. They were original charter members of the Eastern Colored League in 1923. They finished last at 19-30 in their first season. They finished in second place in their second season at 30-19. The white media labelled them the “Million Dollar Infield” because of […]