TheCollector on MSN3d
When Did Baseball’s Negro Leagues Occur?
America regularly enforced segregation, especially after the American Civil War. This also included baseball, the rapidly ...
RotoBaller on MSN10mon
Who Is The New Leader in Career Batting Average After Negro League Stat Integration?
Major League Baseball officially began the process of integrating statistics accumulated by players who played in the Negro Leagues (1920-1948) into the official MLB record books. Commissioner Rob ...
ESPN13y
No joshing about Gibson's talents
384, best in Negro League history. It was reported that he won nine home-run titles and four batting championships playing for the Crawfords and the Homestead Grays. In two seasons in the late ...
Smithsonian Magazine11y
A Long Toss Back to the Heyday of Negro League Baseball
Soon he was playing for the famous Negro League champions, the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh. The catcher on that team was the legendary slugger Josh Gibson, who was called “the black Babe Ruth.” ...