Links to Negro League Baseball and Sports Resources
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General History


Black Baseball 

This site is a six-page timeline of key events in black baseball history, supported by Sports Illustrated. It includes photographs.

Black Athletes Sports Network

This site showcases the "Soul of Sports" with articles on all major sports, including boxing, golf, tennis, women's basketball, HBCU's, Motorsports, Soccer, Wrestling, Streetball, Rugby, Olympics, etc.

Black Sports The Magazine

The only online magazine about African Americans athletes in mainstream sports with special emphasis on Historical Black Colleges & Universities.

David Marasco’s Negro Leagues Page 

This page contains links to a variety of articles written by David Marasco for The Diamond Angle.

Legends of the Negro Leagues 

This site is to promote a set of baseball cards made of some of the players with facts, stats etc. It also includes a lesson plan and reference materials created to go with the class using the baseball card set.

Life in the Negro Leagues 

A website with a short history and links to video clips of an interview done with Buck O’Neil on the history of the leagues.

Negro League Baseball 

Primarily a commercial site it also includes some history, a timeline, lots of biographies and some frequently asked questions about players and teams.

Negro League Legends 

This site promotes the history of the game through the appearances of several former Negro League and barnstorming players. The site also includes lots of autographed products for sale to benefit ball players.

Negro Leagues Legacy 

This site was created by Major League Baseball to honor the Negro Leagues. It begins with a series of articles on players from the Leagues and also includes some basic facts, video clips, special topics such as segregation and barnstorming and an IQ test about the Black Leagues.

Pitch Black Baseball 

This site was created by Kyle McNary initially to focus on Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe. It also features a Negro Leaguer of the Month profile as well as lots of memorabilia for sale and books.

True Baseball 

This site contains information on three players: Butch McCord, Connie Johnson and Ulysses Hollimon. It also has a brief history of the leagues, a short discussion of barnstorming and a few other pieces on different aspects of black baseball.

Cuban baseball and the Negro Leagues 

This site is dedicated to looking at the history of Cubans who played in the Negro Leagues and Negro Leaguers who played in Cuba. It includes brief stats, photographs or baseball cards.

Harrisburg Black Baseball 

A series of articles about the Harrisburg Giants and related players by Negro League historian Ted Knorr.

Homestead Grays 

This site focuses on the book Beyond the Shadow of the Senators by Brad Snyder tells the untold story of the Homestead Grays and the integration of baseball.

Indianapolis Black Baseball

A short site devoted to the teams and key people in Indianapolis based on the files from the Indianapolis Star.

Western Canada Baseball 

This site is part of a larger site on baseball in Canada that includes a discussion about Negro Leaguers and Cubans who played there. It includes photos and some discussion on barnstorming. The years covered include 1948-1964 and you can click on each year for more details including stats, news clippings etc., on that year.

Black Newspapers

This site list black papers currently at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC.

Negro Leaguers in World War II

This site list players, his military branch, years served, along with his team affiliation and other details. 

The Souls of Black Baseball

This website by Dr. Bob Allen provides live oral history of several players, including Mamie Johnson, Monte Irvin, Max Manning, Ernest Burke, Warren Peace, Stanley Glenn and a Newark Eagles batboy, Ron Murphy.

Specialty Sites