by jbminor | 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...
by jbminor | 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...
by jbminor | 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,...
by jbminor | 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...
by jbminor | Jun 30, 2018 | Negro Leagues
HALL OF A SHAME FAME FINDS LEON DAY TOO LATE FOR LEGEND TO WALK THROUGH SHRINE. MICHAEL JAMES APR 23, 1995 12:00 AM “I must work the works of Him that sent me while it is day, for night cometh, when no man can work. ” John 9:4 NIGHT CAME swiftly for Leon...
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