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The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball's color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up until the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with ...
During the 2007 MLB season, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum had a traveling exhibit honoring the Black Aces. [10] The Black Aces were celebrated at Oakland's McAfee Coliseum during that season. [4] Three members of the Black Aces, Gibson, Jenkins and Sabathia, are members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Below is a list of 52 players who played for major Negro league teams up to 1950 and eventually saw playing time for a Major League team. Of these, nine have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Upon the death of Willie Mays, Bill Greason is the sole surviving.
Joshua Gibson (December 21, 1911 – January 20, 1947) was an American baseball catcher primarily in the Negro leagues.In 1972, he became the second Negro league player to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The plaque gallery at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ty Cobb's plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame. The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, honors individuals who have excelled in playing, managing, and serving the sport, and is the central point for the study of the history of baseball in the United States and beyond, displaying baseball-related artifacts and exhibits.
Oscar McKinley Charleston (October 14, 1896 – October 5, 1954) was an American center fielder, first baseman and manager in Negro league baseball and the Cuban League.Over his 43-year baseball career, Charleston played or managed with more than a dozen teams, including the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Negro league baseball's leading teams in the 1930s.
But in Rocky Mount, Leonard reached folklore status decades before he and Gibson made the Hall of Fame in 1972, turning down a job in Major League Baseball to stay in his hometown of Rocky Mount ...
At first, the Hall of Fame planned a "separate but equal" display, which would be similar to the Ford C. Frick Award for baseball commentators, in that this plan meant that the Negro league honorees would not be considered members of the Hall of Fame. This plan was criticized by the press, the fans and the players it was intended to honor, and ...