Negro Leagues

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• SOURCE: National Trust for Historic Preservation
  10/5/2020
  

  Hinchliffe Stadium’s Comeback is a Home Run

  For Black Americans, the amphitheater-style stadium was home to and embodied the incredible spirit of Negro Leagues baseball. It will now be renovated so its story can be preserved.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/16/2020
  

  Baseball is Honoring the Negro Leagues. It Needs to Explain why they Existed.

  Major League Baseball's celebration of the centennial of the Negro Leagues whitewashes the role of major league owners in segregating baseball with an 1887 "Gentlemen's Agreement."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  7/31/2020
  

  MLB Commemorates The 100th Anniversary Of The Negro Leagues (audio)

  Minnie Forbes, age 88, is the last surviving owner of a Negro League baseball team, and worries that the full story of the league and its teams and players may go untold. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/13/20
  

  On the 100th anniversary of the Negro Leagues, a look back at what was lost

  by Rob Ruck

  After World War II, Jackie Robinson hurdled baseball’s racial divide. But while integration – baseball’s great experiment – was a resounding success on the field, at the gates and in changing racial attitudes, Negro League teams soon lost all of their stars and struggled to retain fans.