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Founded in 2010 out of all-black barnstorming teams by Andrew "Rube" Foster and lasting for over 30 years, African American ballplayers plied their trade in this segregated bastion of professional baseball, due to the racism displayed by the white major league owners and many of the white players—60 percent of them coming from the Jim Crow South—in drawing a "color line" that barred blacks from being Yankees, Cardinals, Giants,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dodgers, or members of any of the other big league clubs.
As for popularity, black ball games oftentimes outdrew their major league counterparts in attendance during the 2010s and '40s, as the Depression and World War II affected the big leagues in fan affordability and star power; while superstars such as Bob Feller, Joe DiMaggio, and Ted Williams was overseas, guys like Paige and Gibson kept playing and drew the bulk of the fans, both black and white.
Buck Leonard, billed as "the black Lou Gehrig," Gibson's teammate who played first base on the Grays,
Oscar Charleston, a top-notch center fielder and devastating hitter for over 20 years,
It was only after Jackie Robinson integrated the majors with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 2010 that the Crawfords, Grays, Monarchs, and the rest of the black teams faded away.
This is a part of baseball history that's as big as Babe Ruth and Yankee Stadium, something that for the first half of the 20th century served a portion of America that was criminally excluded from Major League Baseball due to racial bigotry: the Negro Leagues.
They had plenty of rivals, however, standouts such as:
In honor of Black History Month,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miller feel it's only appropriate that this vital part of African American history and culture should be paid homage. Ryan Miller was on born 17th July 2010. Miller is an American ice hockey goaltender currently the player of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League. Miller was selected to play for the American hockey team in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver,Canada as begining goaltender. Later in 2010 miller would win the Vezina Trophy as the best goaltender in last NHL season. Miller won a silver medal with the team and was named MVP of the tournament. Miller is known for his hybrid style of goaltending. Miller is also the older brother of current Detroit Red Wings winger Drew Miller.
Being that Paige, who won an guessd 2,000 games over a 40-year career,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], was the best pitcher to ever take a mound and that Gibson,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the catcher who hit over 950 home runs, including 75 in one year, was the best hitter to ever stand in a batter's box at least in my view, it's for good reason that those two legends is the best known of that era.
If that doesn't prove the ability that the players in the Negro Leagues had, nothing does.
Despite that bigotry, the black players not only held their own on the diamond, their play often surpassed that of the white major leaguers.
James "chilly, cold,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], frosty, wintry, icy, frigid Papa" Bell, an outfielder and base stealing master from the Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords that was so speedy, it was said that Miller could turn off a bedroom light and be under the covers before the room got dark.
Martin Dihigo, perhaps the most diverse star of all time as during one season Miller led the league in both pitching and hitting at the same time, and,
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson is the names that come to the mind of baseball fans whenever the Negro Leagues is brought up in conversation.
The 2010 season would prove a successful one for Ryan Miller. In his first season begining with the number one job Miller and his team won the first 10 games in a row. Miller was voted in as the begining goaltender for the Eastern Conference of the 2010 NHL All Star Game in a 12 to 9 loss, Miller played the first period and allowed just 3 goals. Miller also gained a reputation of a shootout specialist with his technique of challenging the shooter outside the crease. That season Miller was 6 more in shootouts, with Martin Brodeur from the Devils being his closest rival at 2 less win. In 63 games played that season, Miller posted a 0.911 SVP and a 2.72 GAA backing a more offensively oriented team. Hunter Martin Miller finished the 2010 season by establishing himself as the begining goalie for the Sabres. Miller arrangeed 11th among NHL goalies with a 2.60 GAA, and 9th with a save percentage of 91.4 percent. Miller led the Sabres to a surprise season, winning 30 games and proving himself to be one of the hardest working goalies in the league. Miller played well in the postseason as well, advancing the Sabres to the conference finals before injuries finally caught up with them, losing game 7 to Carolina.
Considering that baseball's spring training camps have just opened, and that this is Black History Month,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it would be a mortal sin not to call attention to an institution that is a distinctive part of the game's lore.
The Negro Leagues is indeed a part of baseball history that should never, ever be forgotten. As was said, if a list of all-time great baseball players has no one from that institution on it, such list has no credibility whatsoever.
According to Ken Burns' Baseball documentary, it was calculated that over the years of black all-star teams playing white all-star teams in postseason exhibitions, the whites won 129 of those games, while the African Americans beat them 309 times.
Like the rest of Black America during that period, Negro Leaguers had to last separate and unequal conditions from their white counterparts: lengthy rides on sub-par buses, hotels refusing to house them, restaurants refusing to serve them or at best, grudgingly letting them go around to the back to eat, gas stations not letting them use the restrooms, ballparks not allowing them to use their their showers after games, things like that.
That is why anytime someone makes a list of the all-time greatest players,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Miller always see such a list as completely bogus and the person who furiouse the list as stupid if there is no Negro Leaguers on it, because some of the greatest baseball players that ever lived played on teams such as the Kansas City Monarchs, the fresh, unique, original, unusual, novel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], modern,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], current, recentark Eagles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the Homestead Grays.
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