Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience Program at HMCPL

Photos from the special exhibit "Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience' The St. Paul Gophers were one of several independent, all-black teams to proclaim themselves “Colored World Champions” of 1909. Credit: National Baseball Hall of Fame Library

Photos from the special exhibit &quot;Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience&#039; The St. Paul Gophers were one of several independent, all-black teams to proclaim themselves “Colored World Champions” of 1909.
Photos from the special exhibit &quot;Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience&#039; In 1966, Emmett Ashford became the first African-American umpire in baseball’s major leagues. Ashford worked in the American League from 1966 to 1970.
Photos from the special exhibit &quot;Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience&#039; Satchel Paige was the first player inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame based solely on his performance in the Negro leagues
The Pittsburgh Crawfords were one of the few Negro league teams of the 1930s to own their own home field. For many years, their archrivals were the Homestead Grays, another Pittsburgh-based team.
Catcher Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first African American to play professional baseball in a major league. After the Toledo team dropped out of the American Association in 1884, Walker continued to play in the minor leagues for several more years
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Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience Program at HMCPL

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