Negro Leagues Black History Month

[kalinecountry]

80 Years Ago Today: Legendary pitcher Satchel Paige warms up for the New York Black Yankees before a Negro National League game at Yankee Stadium! Fellow pitching legend Grover Cleveland Alexander observes from the mound! (May 11, 1941) #Baseball #History
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[kalinecountry]

Satchel Page and Roy Campanella share a laugh before the East and West Negro All Star Game at Yankee Stadium, August 21, 1961.
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[kalinecountry]

Josh Gibson posing for the camera during his time in Puerto Rico.
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[kalinecountry]

Jackie Robinson 1945 Kansas City Monarchs.
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[kalinecountry]

The 1936 Pittsburgh Crawfords in front of their bus.
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[kalinecountry]

Kansas City Monarch Buck O'Neil rounds third in a Negro League game.
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[kalinecountry]

June 3, 1937: Josh Gibson is credited with a drive that hits just two feet below the rim of Yankee Stadium, about 580 feet from home plate. It is estimated that the ball would have traveled nearly 700 feet if unimpeded.
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[kalinecountry]

June 6, 2021: Did you know that today marks the 100th anniversary of the Negro National League?s first no-hitter?
https://sabr.org/latest/100-years-a...t-no-hitter-in-negro-national-league-history/
100 years ago: Bill Gatewood throws first no-hitter in Negro National League history.
sabr.org

 

[kalinecountry]

Nice picture of Josh Gibson.
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[kalinecountry]

OTD 1942: Roy Campanella & the Baltimore Elite Giants play the New York Cuban Stars in a doubleheader at Briggs (Tiger) Stadium.
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[kalinecountry]

1948: A 17 year old Willie Mays during his time with his hometown Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.
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[kalinecountry]

There?s cool then there?s Satchel Paige.
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[kalinecountry]

https://www.baseball-reference.com/negro-leagues-are-major-leagues.shtml
The Negro Leagues are Major Leagues. We have dramatically expanded our coverage of the Negro Leagues and historical Black major league players.
Baseball Reference

 

[boogerlovejoy]

There?s cool then there?s Satchel Paige.
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That picture is awesome. Looks photoshopped, though.

I love reading stories about Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell...ect. Too bad they couldn't have played with the other greats of the era.

 

[kalinecountry]

That picture is awesome. Looks photoshopped, though.

I love reading stories about Paige, Josh Gibson, Cool Papa Bell...ect. Too bad they couldn't have played with the other greats of the era.

It is a shame and a disgrace that the color of a person's skin and also their religion (Hank Greenberg) has caused such hate and still does.

Many of the great players spoke out for the ML to integrate decades ago from Cobb and Ruth to the later era when Ted Williams spoke not of himself at the HOF ceremony but that players from the Negro Leagues should be and belong in the HOF.
Finally that happened except for huge shitehead Bowie Kuhn saying they would be put in a separate wing, wtf, that didn't last long thankfully.

I am very happy that you and many other posters and guests come to check this thread out.

 

[kalinecountry]

Birmingham Black Barons with 17 year old Willie Mays in the top center celebrate winning the 1948 Negro League World Series.
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[kalinecountry]

In honor of Reference?s overhaul of Negro Leagues coverage, I have created an interactive timeline of Position Player WAR leaders within the Negro Leagues (1920-1948).

Check out all of the players who deserve just as much recognition as any other major leaguer in history Red heart.

This is Great. Look at Detroit Stars Norman "Turkey" Stearnes Final War Total.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1405185253954580485

 

[kalinecountry]

Today the Lansing Lugnuts will be honoring one of the greatest baseball teams in Michigan history. We talked to historian and preeminent author @MitchL24
about the legendary black baseball team of the 1890's The Page Fence Giants.

https://lansingherald.com/sports#e0aab793-6046-49d3-8e8d-76630ca93fad
Lansing Lugnuts Celebrate "The Page Fence Giants" Mid-Michigan's own Black Baseball Legends.
Lansing Herald

 

[kalinecountry]

The great ones that broke MLB color barriers.
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[kalinecountry]

Hall of Fame hurler Bill Foster was 80-33 for the Chicago American Giants (NNL) and captured (4) ERA titles.
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