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Pre-Negro league executive, manager, player, and historian (1) Sol White. Effa Manley, co-owner (with her husband Abe Manley) and business manager of the Newark Eagles club in the Negro National League, is the first woman elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. The committee reviewed the careers of 29 Negro league and 10 Pre-Negro league candidates.
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The Southern League of Colored Base Ballists was the first organized Negro baseball league. The league's only year of operation was 1886 . Ten teams competed in the league which stretched from Jacksonville, Florida to Memphis, Tennessee with several other southern teams mentioned as possible members in newspaper articles from the period.
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Josh Gibson slides into home during the East-West All-Star Game of the Negro Leagues at Comiskey Park in Chicago, on August 13, 1944. With his statistics set to become officially part of MLB ...
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. A second Negro National League was organized in 1933, but eventually became concentrated on the east coast.
The move will open the door for 2,300 Negro Leagues players to have their accomplishments recognized in the league's official database. The news was first reported by USA Today . JOSH GIBSON all ...