#negro leagues

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[baseballbybsmile]

18-year-old Henry Aaron poses at the train station in Mobile, Alabama before embarking on his first job in pro baseball with the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro Leagues! (1952)

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Charlie Smith, 1920's

[blackexcellencestv]

[whenweallvote]

Long, overdue good news: Negro League statistics will be integrated into MLB historical record!

Stats from the more than 2,300 players from seven iterations of the Negro Leagues from 1920-1948 will be included in the MLB’s database — including legend and Baseball Hall of Famer Josh Gibson, who will become the single-season record holder in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS. Previous record holders for those three categories were Barry Bonds, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The New York Black Yankees, 1934.

The Black Yankees were a New York City team that started out in 1931 as the Harlem Stars. They were renamed a year later and joined the Negro National League in 1936. They disbanded in 1948, after the major (white) leagues began hiring black players.

Photo: James van der Zee via the Howard Greenberg Gallery