Negro National League Logo

Negro leagues baseball museum announces plans to lead a national centennial celebration in 2020 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the negro leagues.

Negro national league logo. Both teams claimed the second half title and greenlee as league president awarded it to his crawfords. The club narrowly lost the first half title to the chicago american giants. The league would resurface however as the negro american league in 1937 with many of the same teams from the old negro national league. The 15 featured players below were selected after consultation with john thorn the official historian for mlb and other negro leagues experts.

The grays folded one year later after losing 30000 in the barnstorming effort. The matter of the overall pennant was apparently never decided. The negro national league folded after the 1948 season when the grays withdrew to resume barnstorming the eagles moved to houston texas and the new york black yankees folded. To distinguish between the two.

A separate negro national league was organized in 1933 but eventually became concentrated on the east coast. The negro american league founded in 1937 and including several of the same teams that played in the original negro national league would eventually carry on as the western circuit of black baseball. So the negro american league was the only major negro league operating in 1949. All major league clubs celebrated the centennial of the founding of the negro national league the first structured negro league that lasted for an extended period with all players managers coaches and umpires wearing a negro leagues 100th anniversary logo patch on their uniforms during sundays games.

Former negro league baseball players robert vickers l a former catcher and pitcher 1956 1974 and charlie harris a former outfielder 1962 1963 in the segregated industrial league attend an announcement of the new negro league baseball museum honoring their teams in birmingham alabama august 23 2013. This list of negro league baseball teams is based in part on the list maintained by the negro leagues baseball museum of kansas city missouri in using the term negro leagues for varying levels of black baseball during racial segregation in the united statesmany of these teams reorganized or relocated which necessitated changing of names and frequently its players staff and owner. More players will be added regularly as we seek to preserve and honor those who helped define the negro leagues and its impact on the game. In 1933 greenlee founded a new negro national league with the crawfords as charter members.

Kansas city mo on february 13 1920 andrew rube foster led eight independent black baseball team owners into a meeting held at the paseo ymca in kansas. Its mission is to lead advocate for and empower women of african descent their families and communities.