History
Timeline
| Baseballist Negro Leagues History Timeline | |||||||
| Year | Event | ||||||
| 1870 | Bud Fowler becomes the first black player in organized baseball when he pitches for the Live Oaks of the International League in Lynn, Massachusetts. | ||||||
| 1884 | Moses Fleetwood Walker, catcher, becomes the first black player in the major leagues when his team the Toledo Blue Stockings joins the American Association. | ||||||
| 1885 | The first salaried professional team, the New York Cuban Giants, is formed. | ||||||
| 1886 | The Southern League of Colored Baseballists forms. It is the first black league. | ||||||
| 1887 | In July, the International League bans all future black players. It will keep the ones presently on teams. | ||||||
| 1901 | John McGraw's, Baltimore Oriole manager, attempt to integrate Charlie Grant into the major leagues as an American Indian fails. | ||||||
| 1920 | The Negro National League is founded by Rube Foster at the YMCA on February 13 in Kansas City, Missouri. | ||||||
| 1923 | The Eastern Colored League is founded on December 16. | ||||||
| 1924 | First Negro League World Series is played between the Eastern Colored and Negro National Leagues when the Kansas City Monarchs defeat the Philadelphia Hilldales. | ||||||
| 1930 | Rube Foster dies in an Illinois asylum. | ||||||
| 1932 | Both leagues are dissolved due to the Great Depression | ||||||
| 1933 | First East-West All-Star game is played | ||||||
| 1937 | Negro American league is founded. | ||||||
| 1942 | Negro Leagues World Series is played once again. | ||||||
| 1943 | Bill Veeck's attempt to buy the Phillies is stopped when Kennesaw Mountain Landis finds out that he intended to add black players on the team. Landis sells the Phillies to someone else. | ||||||
| 1945 | Jackie Robinson signs with the Royals, the minor league team of the Brooklyn Dodgers. | ||||||
| 1947 | Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby break the color barrier of the major leagues. | ||||||
| 1948 | At season's end, the Negro National League is disbanded. | ||||||
| 1953 | Toni Stone becomes the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues. | ||||||
| 1959 | The Boston Red Sox are the last team to integrate when Pumpsie Green is added to the team. | ||||||
| 1960 | All Negro Leagues, minor and major are ended. | ||||||
Kennesaw Mountain Landis was the first commissioner of baseball.
