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  1. The Chicago White Sox Scandal of 1919 Shines Light on Early Baseball Business Practices
    date 1919 to 1920map Cook, Illinoistags Scandal, Baseball

    Lying, cheating, and gambling.  Do these sound like actions that men who were respected and looked upon with admiration would commit?  The fans who supported the Chicago White Sox in 1919 never thought the players they adored would do such things.  However, these fans were wrong.  In September 1920, just as playoffs were about to begin, eight beloved players from the White Sox were charged with...

  2. Black Men in Baseball
    date April 10, 1935map Wilson, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Segregation, Baseball

    A pair of “big league” Negro baseball teams, the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Newark, New Jersey, Dodgers played in Wilson, North Carolina, in 1935.  The teams were members of the Negro National League.  Buck Leonard, a Rocky Mount, N.C. native, was first baseman and captain of the Grays.  Leonard stated, “this league is the only way for ‘us’ to play baseball. ...

  3. Baseball Boosts Morale during Hard Times in America
    date September 26, 1931 to 1940map Jefferson, Alabamatags Sports, Sports and Labor, Baseball

         During the 1930s, J.T. White was a man living and working in hard times. He did what he could to heal the pains of Birmingham. White served as the organizer for the Tennessee Coal Industry (T.C.I.) intramural baseball team. White may not have made a dent in the ailing economy of the United States, but he did manage to boost the morale of the people around him.      White wrote to a Mr....

  4. Reactions to Intigration in Baseball
    date October 25, 1945map New York, New Yorktags Baseball, Segregation, Rickey Branch, Jackie Robinson, Reactions to Intigration

          In the New York Times article entitled, “Rickey Takes Slap at Negro Leagues”, Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers faced a hailstorm of critics as he announced his decision to sign Jackie Robinson to the previously all white Brooklyn Dodgers farm team.  Facing the press, he dispelled the rumors that he had been forced into making the deal, that the Negro leagues had...

  5. Women in Baseball
    date 1943 to 1954map Cook, Illinoistags Women, Baseball

    Women in Baseball             “There’s no crying in baseball.”  These famous words were spoken by Tom Hanks in the movie A League of Their Own.  In 1992, Director Penny Marshall brought the true story of women in baseball to movie theatres across the world.   At a time when America was at the forefront of brutal World War II, the future of Major League baseball was unknown.  The...