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NLB
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In 1920, an organized league structure was formed under the
guidance of Andrew
"Rube" Foster, a former player, manager, and owner for the Chicago American
Giants. In a meeting held at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Mo., Foster
convinced
seven other Midwestern team owners to join him forming the Negro National League.
Soon, rival leagues formed in eastern and southern states, bringing the thrills
and innovative play of black baseball to major urban centers in the U.S., Canada
and Latin America. The Negro Leagues maintained a high level of professional
skill and became centerpieces for economic development in many African-American
communities.
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Women
in
League The Negro Leagues
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Women played in the Negro Leagues also. Listen
to a NPR (National
Public Radio) excerpt. 
Learn more about her contributions
and other female players to the League. Click here
Biography - read a short
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NLB's stellar female ballplayer
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Negro Leagues
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SATCHEL PAIGE
"I know who's the best pitcher I ever see and it's old Satchel
Paige...my fastball looks like a change of pace alongside that little
bullet old Satchel shoots up to the plate."
-- Dizzy Dean .......Click
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Negro League TRIVIA
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The generic label, THE NEGRO
LEAGUES,
refers to various affiliations of professional black baseball players, extending
fom the late nineteenth century to the Jackie Robinson era
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The Negro leagues, interestingly
enough, were
responsible for introducing night baseball, the use of shin guards, batting
helmets
and the screwball
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The New York Cubans Giants
was one
of the early teams to form, though it adapted the Cuban surname to help circumvent
racist discrimination. The stigma obviously remained.
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The ban that barred black
ballplayers from the exclusively white Major Leagues dates as far back as 1859,
with the National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP). The National Association
of Professional Base Ball Players, which relaced the NABBP in 1871, upheld the
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