With the integration of Organized Baseball, beginning 1946, all leagues simply lost elite players to white leagues, and historians do not consider any Negro league "major" after 1950.

Negro league, any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when Black players were at last contracted to play major and minor …

The 32 featured players below were selected after consultation with John Thorn, the Official Historian for MLB, and other Negro Leagues experts. More players will be added regularly as …

Experience a timeline of American and Latin baseball history, see detailed baseball histories of several countries and learn about significant baseball players who crossed cultural lines.

Apr 13, 2017 · Reformulated several times with new leagues and owners, Negro League baseball enjoyed periods of success in the early 1920s and again after the Great Depression.

Learn more about your favorite teams and players that played in the collective known as professional Negro League Baseball. Historian Bill James is one of the few historians who …

The Negro Leagues were among the most important businesses in black America during the first half of the 20th century. Excluded from Major League Baseball, African Americans formed …

Some Black baseball teams were forced to operate independently in order to survive, as the color barrier enacted by White officials both necessitated the Negro Leagues' existence and later …

The best black players were now recruited for the Major Leagues, and black fans followed. The last Negro Leagues teams folded in the early 1960s, but their legacy lives on through the …

The Negro Leagues were a United States professional baseball leagues comprising team's made up of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans.