Negro league baseball

:Part of the History of baseball in the United States series.

Significant Negro Leagues

• Negro National League (first), 1920–1931
• Eastern Colored League, 1923–1928; the NNL and ECL champions met in a World Series from 1924 to 1927.
• American Negro League lasted just one season 1929 created from some of the ECL teams.
• East-West League played part of one season in 1932.
• Negro Southern League was a minor league that played from 1920 into the 1940s; in 1932 it incorporated some teams from the first Negro National League and functioned for one year as a major league.
• Negro National League (second), 1933–1948.
• Negro American League, 1937–1960 or so. (After 1950, the league and its teams operated after a fashion, mostly as barnstorming units, but historians have a hard time deciding when the league actually came to an end.) The National and American Leagues met in a Negro League World Series from 1942 through 1948.