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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.

Center for Negro League Baseball Research 

This web site has an extensive array of artifacts & memorabilia, along with the photos and a bit of history about each item. Many of the items are related to barnstorming and semi-pro clubs. They provide a list of related websites and a forum for discussion.

 

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.