For over 50 years or until 1947 when Jackie Robinson smashed the major leagues' color barrier the only ball fields where an African American could play organize

Presents a history of the Negro Leagues, from their inception to the integration of black players into Major League Baseball to the eventual demise of the leagu

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black respons

The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the c

The result of a study commissioned by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and funded by a grant from Major League Baseball(, this richly illustrated, comprehensi