Book description
At his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, former Negro League player Buck Leonard said, "Now, we in the Negro Leagues felt like we were contributing something to baseball, too, when we were playing.... We loved the game.... But we thought that we should have and could have madeā¦
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Before Major League Baseball was integrated, the Negro Leagues were the showcase for talented Black players.
Heaphy explains that Negro League players were the ultimate road warriors, traveling from one city to another to play ābarnstormingā games ā games that bolstered teamsā financial status but didnāt count in the league standings. And the Negro Leagues were trend-setters, playing night baseball several years before the all-white Major Leagues began doing so.
Heaphy paints a vivid portrait of Rube Foster, the daring and persistent man who formed the Negro National League in 1920.
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