New book examines black baseball in Richmond, Ind.

On TV: Black History Month — February 2023

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In 1947 Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier and became a hero for black and white Americans, yet Robinson was a Negro League player before he integrated Major League baseball. Negro League ballplayers had been thrilling black fans since 1920.

Invisible Men: Life in Baseball's Negro Leagues [Book]

Mexicans Playing Baseball in an Indiana Steel Town: Baseball, Identity and the Old Timers of Indiana Harbor, Indiana, 1920 – 1942: Fraire, John: 9798835629527: : Books

Tuesday, Nov. 8: 'Say Hey, Willie Mays!' Looks at the Life and Career of the Baseball Legend

An Inside View of Negro National League Baseball: Told Through Humorous Short Stories and Wise Observations from an Elite Giant, Don Troy [Book]

Presents the history of the Homestead Grays, one of the Negro League's best baseball teams, and how they started the integration of baseball in

Beyond the Shadow of the Senators : The Untold Story of the Homestead Grays and the Integration of Baseball

Fall Scoop: Georgetown, Belmont, Gardner-Webb, Oakland • D1Baseball

Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series (Champions of Black Baseball): Bush, Frederick C., Nowlin, Bill, Riechers, Carl, Levin, Len, Watkins, Clarence, Knopp, Japheth, Smith