

Introduction: From Rube to Robinson
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1933-1962: The Business Meetings of Negro League Baseball
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Hothead: How the Oscar Charleston Myth Began
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Negro League Baseball, Black Community, and The Socio-Economic Impact of Integration
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Black Baseball at Yankee Stadium: The House That Ruth Built and Satchel Furnished (with Fans)
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May The Best Man Win: The Black Ball Championships 1866–1923
In 1892, Frank Grant played for the Gorhams and then the Cuban…

John Donaldson and Black Baseball in Minnesota
World’s All Nations, 1912, barnstorming club sponsored by…

Sol White
Racial discrimination did not miraculously disappear in 1863…

Can You Read, Judge Landis?
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The Rise and Fall of Greenlee Field
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Early Twentieth Century Heroes: Coverage of Negro League Baseball in the Pittsburgh Courier and the Chicago Defender
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The Pittsburgh Keystones and the 1887 Colored League
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Andrew (Rube) Foster: Gem of a Man
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Jackie Robinson’s Signing: The Real Story
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Oscar Charleston No. 1 Star of 1921 Negro League
Oscar Charleston was known as “the Black Ty Cobb.” Both men…

Oscar Charleston
Sleep, Charlie! thou, the great, the strong!
Within the depths…