What Were the Negro Leagues?

This baseball league that was made up of African American players and run by African American owners ushered in the biggest change in the history of baseball. In America during the early twentieth century,no part was safe from segregationnot even the country’s national pastimebaseball. Despite their exodus from the Major Leagues because of the color of their skinAfrican American men still found a way to participate in the sport they loved. Author Varian Johnson shines a spotlight on the playerscoachesownersand teams that dominated the Negro Leagues during the 1930s and 40s. Readers will learn about how phenomenal players like Satchel PaigeJosh Gibsonand of courseJackie Robinson greatly changed the sport of baseball.