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A Pastime of Their Own: The Story of Negro League Baseball

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<p>Witness the triumphant story of Black baseball—a reflection of segregation and integration in American history.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Emancipation and the American Pastime
  • 02: Drawing the Color Line
  • 03: Black Ball Goes Pro
  • 04: Rube Foster: A Baseball Lifer
  • 05: The Negro National League
  • 06: The Eastern Colored League
  • 07: The Troubled Twenties
  • 08: Making a Way out of No Way
  • 09: The East-West Classic
  • 10: Surviving the Great Depression
  • 11: The Negro American League
  • 12: Integration and the Negro Leagues
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Louis Moore

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