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Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 23:13:00 JST Stefan Bohacek

On this day in 1920, the Negro National League was formed.
"Baseball gave you a sense of belonging. The umpire ain’t white. It’s a black umpire. The owner ain’t white. Nobody’s white. This is our thing … and we have our everything – until integration, and then we don’t have our nothing."
Here's a 2020 article celebrating its 100th anniversary: https://daily.jstor.org/100th-anniversary-negro-leagues-look-back-what-was-lost/
More about NNL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negro_National_League_(1920%E2%80%931931)
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  Negro National League (1920–1931)
  
  The first Negro National League (NNL I) was one of the several Negro leagues that were established during the period in the United States when organized baseball was segregated. The league was formed in 1920 with former player Rube Foster as its president. League history Founding Led by Rube Foster, owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, the NNL was established on February 13, 1920, by a coalition of team owners at a meeting in a Kansas City YMCA. The formation included the creation of the NLL constitution, written by journalist Cary B. Lewis, David Wyatt from the Indianapolis Ledger, Elwood C. Knox from the Indianapolis Freeman, and attorney Elisha Scott. The new league was the first African-American baseball circuit to achieve stability and last more than one season. At first the league operated mainly in midwestern cities, ranging from Kansas City in the west to Pittsburgh in the east; in 1924 it expanded into the south, adding franchises in Birmingham, Alabama, and Memphis, Tennessee. Competition The two most...
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