African American Baseball In The 1800s

The creation of the negro baseball leagues was a big advancement for the African American culture therefore, helping break down racism and spread a wider acceptance in the community inside and outside of baseball. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball during the modern era. Before he signed to the Dodgers, baseball in the black community was considered just a pastime and not a career. Integration into professional baseball was unfathomable.
Looking through all of the years of baseball in America that led up to Robinson's debut of 1947 in Brooklyn. The Baseball world before 1890, it would be a bit of an exaggeration to say that major league baseball in the North was even the least bit integrated between
Teams like the Kansas City Monarchs, Indianapolis ABC’s, Chicago Giants, and St. Louis Giants rose to the top and bestowed a legitimate claim of challenge to supremacy made by Eastern clubs. Meanwhile in the South, black baseball was booming especially in Birmingham's leagues. By 1918 African American baseball had become considered the number one attraction and pastime for the black population throughout the nation.
It was at that time that Andrew Foster aka “Rube”, because he out pitched The Great Rube Waddell, owned the Chicago American Giants and he could be considered one of the most influential figures in black baseball. He was determined to implement a truly organized and stable African American league. Through Foster’s leadership efforts in the 1920’s the Negro National League was finally created in Kansas City.
Around the same time Thomas T. Wilson owned the Nashville Elite Giants and also organized the Negro Southern League with multiple teams in cities like Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Montgomery. As little as three years later, in 1923, the Eastern Colored League was
Not only had African-Americans proven themselves on the battlegrounds serving our country, but they had also took an undeniable moral claim to an fair share in regular American life, the stars of black baseball had proven their skills in numerous exhibition games against the stars of major league teams who had some of the best rosters out there. The time for integration had come and they were ready to make an