The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional...
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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) is a privately funded museum dedicated to preserving the history of Negro league baseball in America. It was...
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The Negro American League was one of the several Negro leagues created during the time organized American baseball was segregated. The league was established...
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The American Negro League (ANL) was one of several Negro leagues established during the period in the United States in which organized baseball was segregated...
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The first Negro National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro leagues that were established during the period in the United States when organized...
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Kansas City Monarchs (redirect from Kansas City Monarchs (Negro leagues))
baseball's Negro leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri, and owned by J. L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920...
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Negro National League can refer to either one or both of the two leagues of Negro league baseball in the USA in the first half of the twentieth century:...
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Buck Leonard (section Negro leagues)
included the official Negro league statistics for Buck Leonard as of 2006. After seven Negro leagues were declared major leagues in December 2020, Baseball...
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offensive than Negro. The term Negro is still used in some historical contexts, such as the songs known as Negro spirituals, the Negro leagues of baseball...
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does not include Negro league players who only played in the minor leagues and White Hispanic players who played in both the Negro Leagues and MLB prior...
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of Negro league baseball teams is split into two pages, one listing the major league Negro teams and one listing the minor league and traveling Negro teams...
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Bill Greason (category Major League Baseball pitchers)
Birmingham Black Barons in the Negro leagues from 1948 to 1951 and for the St. Louis Cardinals of the National League in 1954. Greason was born in Atlanta...
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Josh Gibson (category Negro league hitting Triple Crown winners)
an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues. In 1972, he became the second Negro league player to be inducted in the National Baseball...
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Satchel Paige (category American League All-Stars)
Chattanooga Black Lookouts of the Negro Southern League and became one of the most famous and successful players from the Negro leagues. On town tours across the...
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The second Negro National League was one of the several Negro leagues that were established during the period in the United States when organized baseball...
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Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues was a Major League Baseball (MLB) specialty game played between the National League (NL) West's San Francisco...
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leagues are boldfaced, and those who played in integrated major leagues are also italicized. They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues...
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League Baseball designated the following seven Negro leagues from 1920–1948 as major leagues: Negro National League I (NNL), Eastern Colored League (ECL)...
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This list of major Negro league baseball teams consists of teams that played in the seven major Negro baseball leagues. For a league to be considered "major...
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Buck O'Neil (category Negro league baseball managers)
to renew widespread interest in the Negro leagues, and played a major role in establishing the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri....
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players, dubbed Road to the Show: Women Pave Their Way. Storylines: The Negro Leagues returns in MLB The Show 24, now including Buck Leonard, Josh Gibson...
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Leon Day (category Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players)
spent the majority of his career in the Negro leagues. Recognized as one of the most versatile athletes in the league during his prime, Day could play every...
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Bob Kendrick (category Negro league baseball)
the early players and teams of the Negro leagues, players who were not given a chance to play in the Major Leagues until Jackie Robinson played with the...
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was one of three women, and the first female pitcher, to play in the Negro leagues. Johnson was born Mamie Belton in Ridgeway, South Carolina on September...
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This list of minor Negro league baseball teams consists of teams that played in the various minor Negro baseball leagues, as well as the independent teams...
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September 16, 1978) was an American left-handed pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues in the 1920s and 1930s. He was elected to the National Baseball Hall...
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Negro league baseball, almost exclusively for the Homestead Grays. During his career, he was widely considered the best pitcher in the Negro leagues at...
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Martín Dihigo (category Negro league baseball managers)
pitcher, utility player, and manager. He played in the Negro leagues and Latin American leagues from 1923 to 1936 as a two-way player, predominantly as...
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include self-declared, regional and (later) league champions, but is limited to top-tier teams and major Negro leagues. The champions listed after 1948 through...
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the first Negro National League (NNL) in 1920 and of the Eastern Colored League (ECL) in 1923, many Negro league fans hoped that the two leagues would compete...
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