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History of the Negro Baseball Leagues
McFarland & Company
December 2002
383 pages
ISBN: 0786413808
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In his speech at his induction into the Baseball Hall of
Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, "Now, we
in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing
something to baseball, too, when we were playing…. We loved
the game and we liked to play it. But we thought that we
should have and could have made the major leagues." The
Negro Leagues had some of the best talent in the game, but
from their earliest days they were segregated from those
leagues that received all the recognition. This complete history of the Negro Leagues begins with the
second half of the nineteenth century, discussing the early
attempts by African American players to be allowed to play
with white teammates, and progressing through the creation
of the "Gentleman’s Agreement" in the 1890s which kept
baseball segregated. It then discusses the establishment of
the first successful Negro League in 1920 and examines
various aspects of the game for the players (lodgings,
travel accommodations, families, off-season jobs, play and
life in Latin America, difficulties encountered because of
race). The history ends in 1960, when the Birmingham Black
Barons went out of business and took the Negro Leagues with
them. Also included are stories of individual players,
owners, umpires, and others involved with the Negro Leagues
in the United States and in Latin America.
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