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The History and Significance of the Negro Leagues in Baseball
TLDR The Negro Leagues were formed in response to the segregation and exclusion of black players from major and minor league baseball. Despite facing challenges such as lack of financial support and segregation, the Negro Leagues provided black players with an opportunity to excel in baseball and showcased their talent.
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This podcast episode is about the history and significance of the Negro Leagues in baseball.
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The Supreme Court Chief Justice in 1857 stated that Negroes were inferior to whites and had no rights, despite the Emancipation Proclamation and the 14th Amendment, and it took until the 1960s for any real progress to be made.
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In the late 1800s, there were several black players in the minor leagues, including Moses Walker, but the presence of black players brought about resentment and pressure to get rid of them, leading to unofficial segregation in major league baseball.
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In response to the segregation in major and minor league baseball, black players formed their own teams and started barnstorming, playing games wherever they could and gaining fans, which eventually led to the creation of the Negro Leagues.
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The Negro Leagues provided black players with an opportunity to fully excel in baseball and showcase their talent, as they were unable to play against white players in an integrated league.
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The Negro Leagues experienced success and established their own World Series, but faced challenges such as the illness and institutionalization of Rube Foster, lack of financial support from Black Americans, and segregation within cities.
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The lack of financial support from Black Americans, coupled with the mental illness and institutionalization of Rube Foster and the Great Depression, led to the end of the first Negro leagues.
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Exhibition games and the East versus West All-Stars game became more popular than the Negro League World Series, and players like Satchel Page started to make good money, with Page potentially having 300 career shutouts and 1500 wins.
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Satchel Page had an incredible career, with potentially three times more wins than the highest win count ever in major league baseball, and he made between 30 and 40 grand a year in the Negro leagues, which is about half a million dollars today.
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The signing of Jackie Robinson and the subsequent integration of Black players into Major League Baseball was a bittersweet end to the color barrier, but it marked a significant moment in history.
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The Negro Leagues officially disbanded in 1948, but there were still a few teams playing into the 1950s and early 1960s, and today there is a push to get baseball going again in black communities due to a lack of representation.
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