Links to Negro League Baseball and Sports Resources
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General History

Black Ball Journal: A Negro Leagues Journal

In the spring of 2008, McFarland published the inaugural issue of Black Ball, a semiannual peer-reviewed journal. The journal offers new, authoritative research on all subjects related to black baseball, including the Negro major and minor leagues, teams, and players; pre–Negro League organization and play; barnstorming; segregation and integration; class, gender, and ethnicity; the business of black baseball; and the arts.  Subscriptions are available.

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.

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.

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.

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 African American-owned newspapers 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