Decades after their demise, the Negro baseball leagues are beginning to be recognized for their contributions to black America's social and economic progress.
This website is intended to be the most informational and entertaining resource on the Internet for information pertaining to the Negro Baseball Leagues.
This site is lovingly maintained by Signe Shivers, in the hope that more people will learn about the great people who never had a chance to show their true greatness in the public eye of the Major Leagues.
This is a Negro Leagues web page. Black baseball before Jackie Robinson is a very active field. But many of the experts do not have the time to learn enough HTML to get on to the Web. This page acts as a repository for authors who want to publish via the
When the history of baseball's Negro Leagues is told, Marcenia Lyle Alberga shouldn't be forgotten. Playing under the name Toni Stone, she was the first of three women to play in the Negro Leagues, a second baseman who batted .243 for the Indian
Passing beyond cliche to near triteness, baseball has long been described as "the national pasttime", and "America's game." These appellations are, of course, intended to be complimentary, even self-congratulatory. But the applaus