A description of the life of the outstanding baseball player who started in the Negro leagues, overcame racial discrimination to play with the New York Giants,

Inspire your readers with this biography. The exceptionally athletic Monte Irvin was an outfielder who started in the Negro leagues and eventually became one of

The Negro baseball leagues were a thriving sporting and cultural institution for African Americans from their founding in 1920 until Jackie Robinson broke the c

1954: Perhaps no single baseball season has so profoundly changed the game forever. In that year—the same in which the US Supreme Court unanimously ruled, in

Briefly traces the history of the Negro Baseball League, and identifies over four thousand of its players.