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Harrisburg Giants Negro Leagues Tribute Night 0000-00-00 00:00:00 UNIVERSITY PARK -- Willie Fordham, Jim Weedon and Dan Werner spent more than an hour before Sunday's State College Spikes game against the Brooklyn Cyclones describing the conditions they endured to play baseball.
Too bad the players lounging on the leather furniture, munching on fresh fruit and watching television didn't stop ... Read more:Giants
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Bill Pinkney Dies at 81. Played for Negro Baseball Leagues 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Bill Pinkney also played for the New York Blue Sox of the Negro
Baseball Leagues
in the 1940's and early 1950's.
Rhythm and blues singer Bill Pinkney, the last surviving member of the original lineup of The Drifters, was found dead in his hotel room hours before he was due to ... Read more:Played
Silas Simmons, Oldest Negro League Player Alive 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Silas is second from the right in the second row. In 2006, he was 111 years old. He never played in the Major League
s because of the Color Line. He was born in 1895.
He’s likely the oldest living professional baseball player from either the Majors of the Negro
Leagues.
Wayne Stivers, who ... Read more:Silas
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Branch Rickey Speech 0000-00-00 00:00:00 "Dr. May, gentlemen, -- ladies and gentlemen. My plane doesn't leave until tomorrow at 10:35 A.M. and I haven't a thing to do between now and then but to talk if I get the chance, -- and I feel like talking.
"I asked Mr. Lawson and several others today about my ... Read more:Branch
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What Exactly Was Barnstorming? 0000-00-00 00:00:00 During the baseball season Negro League players were not allowed to play ball with the the Major League players the off-season was quite different. Players from the Major Leagues would get up a team and players from the Negro Leagues would get a team together, head south and then play ...
GET THAT NEGRO OFF THE FIELD! 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The first black professional ballplayer played second base for an all-white team in New Castle, Pennsylvania. That player, John W. (Bud) Fowler, was born in 1854 to freedmen parents. Ironically, he was born in Cooperstown, New York, where professional baseball has its museum and Hall of Fame. Fowler was the ...
The Singing Baseball Team 0000-00-00 00:00:00 It's the seventh inning stretch. Everyone is on their feet to sing, "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", but instead the fans are about to be entertained by a gospel quartet and hear a remarkable story of faith and perseverance about a school located 20 miles southeast of Jackson, Mississippi; ... Read more:Singing
The Last Negro League Baseball Game 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The published histories of the Negro
Baseball League
s generally end with 1955 or even earlier. The Negro American League (NAL) actually continued through 1961, with league and all-star games, but little has been written about this era. While the major and minor leagues had opened up to African-Americans beginning with ... Read more:Baseball Game
Black Ball Players Birthdays 0000-00-00 00:00:00 William Hudson "Red" Lindsay Age 101. He was born Saturday, April 15, 1905.
Emilio “Millito” Navarro, of baseball’s Negro League is next. He was born in Patillas, Puerto Rico, and today lives in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was born 09-26-1905. In 1928 & 29 he played in infield at both 2b ... Read more:Black
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Cool Papa Bell - Negro Leagues Player 0000-00-00 00:00:00 They called Cool Papa Bell the fastest man in spikes (though Negro
Leaguer Oscar Chalston stole more bases). In 1948, the 46 year-old Bell wrapped up his ancient legs for one last game against white big leaguers. With Bell on first and the Cardinals' Murray Dickson pitching, Satchel Paige laid ... Read more:Leagues
Big Bill Foster - Negro Leagues Player 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Big Bill Foster
of Calvert Texas was 19 years younger than his half-brother, Rube, and was probably the greatest black left-hander of all time. In 1926 his Chicago American Giants faced the Kansas City Monarchs in the playoff and went into the final game losing four games to three. On ... Read more:Negro
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Negro Leagues Celebration in Pittsburgh 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I found this amazing article from the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette (Monday July 16) discussing a Black Tie Gala to honor some players of the Negro
Baseball League. The best part of the article were the photographs including this one that shows Satchel Paiges daughter, Pamela Paige O'Neal. When I think of ... Read more:Leagues
Negro Leagues Basebll Museum receives national designation 0000-00-00 00:00:00 For Immediate Release: Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Contact: Adam Miles 2022252865 adam.miles@mail.house.gov
NegroLeagues
Baseball Museum
receives national designation
Congressman Moore co-sponsors legislation officially designating museum as America’s National Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- On Monday, the United States House of Representatives approved legislation designating the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum (NLBM) ...
Audio Profiles Of New Hall Of Fame Inductees 0000-00-00 00:00:00 TBO.com is featuring an excellent set of career profiles of the newly elected members of the Hall of Fame selected by the special committee yesterday, Feb. 27th. Also included are profiles of all other candidates for induction who were not elected in yesterday's balloting. The profiles are accompanied by audio ... Read more:Audio
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Pirates To Install Permanent Negro Leagues Tribute 0000-00-00 00:00:00 On Monday (June 26th) the Pittsburgh Pirates
will present a Negro
League exhibit that will become a permanent fixture at PNC Park. The exhibit will be focused on the history and achievements of Negro League teams with specific emphasis on the two legendary teams from the Steel City area, the ... Read more:Leagues
Former Buckeyes Moundsman Recalls Negro League Life In The 1940s 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In a career interrupted by military service during World World II, Ross "Satch" Davis made a name for himself in big time NegroLeague
baseball with the Baltimore Elite Giants and Negro American League champion Cleveland Buckeyes. Davis recalls his life in black baseball in an entertaining inferview with Doug ... Read more:Former
Negro League Organized In Texas In 1897 0000-00-00 00:00:00 During the late 1800s numerous attempts were made to organize viable, professional black baseball leagues. However, economic realities, travel and lodging difficulties posed by segregation, and the logistics of travel worked together to thwart the establishment of any solid baseball... Read more:Negro
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, Texas
Judy Johnson 1900-1989 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Sure handed with good range and a strong arm, Judy Johnson
was an all-around great third baseman. The 5'11", 145 lb. Johnson was a good instinctive base runner, which offset his lack of outstanding speed. A righthanded line-drive hitter with an excellent batting eye, he hit for good average but ...
1924 newspaper Baltimore BlackSox NEGRO LEAGUE Baseball 0000-00-00 00:00:00 SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper, the Baltimore
News (MD) dated Oct 11, 1924. Inside page heading and report on the Negro League baseball team from Baltimore, the baltimore Black Sox plaaing the Major League Philadelphia Americans. Very early Negro League baseball as they were one of the original six teams to make up the Eastern Colored ...
A Great Summary of Negro Baseball 0000-00-00 00:00:00 For almost a century, African American baseball players were barred from the major leagues because of their skin color. In December 1867, the National Association of Ball Players voted not to accept a team with black athletes. In those early days a few black players did play on integrated minor ... Read more:Great
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