Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

1601 East 18th Street
Kansas City, MO, 64108
816-221-1920

URL : http://www.nlbm.com

overview : African-Americans began to play baseball during the Civil War. They eventually found their way to professional teams with white players. However, racism and 'Jim Crow' laws would force them from white professional leagues by 1900. Thus, black players formed their own teams, 'barnstorming' around the country to play anyone who would challenge them - The last Negro League teams fold in the early 1960s, but their legacy lives on through the surviving players and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.

topics : african, American, sports