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By the middle of the decade, fans of baseball could look South as well as East and West.

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“When the great little ‘Cum’ Posey sends the Homestead Grays against the Lincoln Giants the fur is going to fly. Posey says that New York can’t beat Pittsburgh at anything and is willing to back his opinion. Line forms t...

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You would have to search long and hard to find a year that equals the fine, tight, well-fought professional baseball of 1926.

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There’s no better judge of an athlete than a competitor and Charlie Biot learned that lesson playing against Josh Gibson, the man many refer to as the “Black Babe Ruth.”

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Given its down side off the field of play, it seems only appropriate that the 1927 Negro Leagues season turned out to be the year of the \"Turkey\" on the field.

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In the meantime, animosity between the Chicago Unions and Columbia Giants increased.

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For African Americans, the reasons for heading to Latin America to play baseball remained essentially unchanged from the beginning of the 20th century through the end of segregated baseball.

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With Cool Papa Bell flying around the bases, and Josh Gibson drawing accolades as the Black Babe Ruth, and Satchel Paige intentionally loading the bases, telling his fielders to sit down, and then striking out the side.

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“I didn't play baseball because it was a pastime. I played it because I loved it. I played it with what they call \"reckless abandon.\" I ran over hills; I ran into fences; I dove into pigpens. I'll never forget that. Oh, ...

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There are 10 players honored with a statue outside of Busch Stadium:

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In the movie “A League of Their Own,” about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) that lasted from 1943-1954, there is a scene that shows a stray ball landing over the fence near an African-America...

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In May of 1944, Branch Rickey publicly committed himself and the Dodgers organization to support the newly formed United States League (USL), an all black circuit that was largely the handiwork of Negro Leagues executive...

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By the end of the 19th century Abel Linares was already a veteran baseball executive in Cuba who at different times in his long career operated teams in the Cuban Professional Baseball League.

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“William Judy Johnson was the smartest third basemen I ever came across”, said Pittsburgh Crawfords teammate Ted Page.

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It wasn't too long before there were a class of new, young African-American entrepreneurs emerging in St. Louis.

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Josh Gibson was one of the best players to never play in Major League Baseball.

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Among the standout Negro Leagues stars discovered by executive Alex Pompez, the immortal Martin Dihigo stands out as a cut above the rest.

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Many famous black jazz players opted to live in Europe rather than endure discrimination in the United States, and so did one of the best black hitters of the era, with his decision to move permanently to Mexico.

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Baseball in black, as in white, America of the 1920s amounted to much more than occasional attention to regular season contests and World Series battles on the level of the Major Leagues.

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Given all the negatives swirling around baseball in the 1927 season, it was difficult for fans to have been faulted for expecting a less than memorable post-season.

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In New York, Nathaniel Colvin “Nat” Strong saw a promising opportunity booking semi-professional baseball games.

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During spring training in 1917, America entered into the conflict that was raging in Europe for close to three years.

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New York Amsterdam News sports editor Romeo Dougherty looked back from 1926 with considerable delight on the years before World War I, “the good old days when the Lincolns engaged in a series with the then world famous C...

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Out of a crowd of black ball clubs in the Quaker City that aspired to become the next Philadelphia Giants came Ed Bolden, an African-American entrepreneur who small sandlot team would grow into a powerhouse.

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While Rube Foster engineered his rise as the bookings power agent of the Midwest, three baseball entrepreneurs founded teams in Indianapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City that would form the nucleus for the first Negro Nat...

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When we speak of the Negro leagues, we often mean something more than the leagues themselves. Segregation more than the leagues themselves. Segregation in baseball dates back to at least 1867; Cap Anson’s famous refusal ...

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While the evidence is limited, it appears that the International League of Colored Baseball Clubs in America and Cuba was absorbed into the NACBC, since the same clubs that made up the ILBCAC were also NACBC members.

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In 1907 and 1908, the “National Association of Colored Baseball Clubs” (NACBC) of the United States and Cuba extended its bookings network to the Midwest and internationally to Cuba.

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At the conclusion of the 1928 season the harshest of critics had recognized that league baseball, regardless of its flaws, provided a measure of stability to the now sorely lacking amount of Eastern black baseball teams.

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In the early 1930s, Gus Greenlee’s Pittsburgh Crawfords had eclipsed Cum Posey’s Homestead Grays, who stayed out of the Negro National League II (NNLII) until the 1935 season.

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Despite the high mortality rate of black ball clubs during this era, entrepreneurs continued to enter the game.

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The rejuvenation of black baseball in the 1930s was part of a large order of change for black Americans as the nation gradually emerged from the depth of the Great Depression.

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The 1906 season witnessed a virtual explosion of black independent clubs within a hundred mile radius of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

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