A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball

The Negro National League (1x5)

Air date: Jan 07, 2023

Continue your study of Rube Foster as he creates the first Black baseball league. As you will discover, team owners faced a number of financial and logistical challenges, so in 1920 a group of seven sat down at a Kansas City YMCA and organized the Negro National League. Despite ballpark challenges, the league’s first year was a financial success.