Negro Leagues Interesting Facts

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 [...]

I queried 250 children and adults to find out if they new how to spell the words “negro,” ”baseball,” and “league.”  I found that most people could not spell it correctly.  Next, I asked them if it was the negro baseball league or the negro leage baseball.  And most answered, “the negro baseball league.”   The accurate answer is “The Negro Leagues [...]