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First all-black baseball team
The first all-Black baseball team,The Cuban Giants is founded in Babylon ,New York -
The beggining
The National Colored Base Ball League, the first attempt at a professional Negro League, is formed. The league includes Lord Baltimores (Baltimore), Resolutes (Boston), Browns (Cincinnati), Falls City (Louisville), Gorhams (New York), Pythians (Philadelphia), Pittsburgh Keystones, Capital City Club (Washington). Two weeks later the league will fail from lack of attendance. -
Ban of all colored players
The International League implements a ban on African-American players. The league's ban will continue until 1946. -
First powerhouse team
"Bud" Fowler forms the Page Fence Giants club, one of black baseball's early powerhouse teams. Based in Adrian, Michigan the club tours the Midwest and East in their own railroad car taking on all comers, including major league clubs like the Cincinnati Reds. -
Big game
The Page Fence Giants and Cuban Giants, the undisputed champions of black baseball in the East, play an historic series of games billed as a "national championship" series. The Page Fence fence club prevails, winning 10 of 15 games. -
Negro national league
Andrew "Rube" Foster, renowned pitcher and owner of the Chicago American Giants, calls Midwestern team owners to Kansas City. The result of the meeting is the formation of the Negro National League -
The first negro World Series
The first Negro World Series is played between the Kansas City Monarchs (Negro National League Champions) and the Hilldale Club (Eastern Colored League Champions). Kansas City wins the series championship 5 games to 4. -
American negro league
the American Negro League is formed in the East and begins its inaugural (and only) season with the Baltimore Black Sox, Lincoln Giants, Homestead Grays, Hilldale Cub, Bacharach Giants, and Cuban Stars (East). -
Stock crash and great depressiom
The stock market crash and onset of the Great Depression places financial pressure on all of America, including Negro League baseball. -
Blow to the league
Negro National League founder Rube Foster dies after an extended hospitalization. The Kansas City Monarchs, among the more successful and prestigious clubs in black baseball, withdraws from the Negro National League and returns to independent play. -
End of the national negro league
The Negro National League plays its final season before succumbing to financial pressures.