Negro Leagues Baseball History

Negro Leagues Baseball History

by | Jul 5, 2018 | Negro Leagues

INTEGRATION AND THE END OF THE NEGRO LEAGUES By that point, the push to integrate major league baseball was slowly gaining steam. In 1942, former UCLA athletic star Jackie Robinson and another black player named Nate Moreland were granted a cursory workout with the...
Louis Santop

Louis Santop

by | Jul 3, 2018 | Negro Leagues

Louis Santop American baseball player Louis Santop Loftin (January 17, 1890 – January 22, 1942) was an African-American baseball catcher in the Negro leagues. He became “one of the earliest superstars” and “black baseball’s first legitimate...
Monte Irvin

Monte Irvin

by | Jul 1, 2018 | Negro Leagues

Monte Irvin American baseball player Monford Merrill “Monte” Irvin (February 25, 1919 – January 11, 2016) was an American left fielder and right fielder in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who played with the Newark Eagles (1938–42,...
Larry Dolby

Larry Dolby

by | Jul 1, 2018 | Negro Leagues

Larry Doby American baseball player Lawrence Eugene Doby (December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003) was an American professional baseball player in the Negro leagues and Major League Baseball (MLB) who was the second black player to break baseball’s color barrier. A...