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Subscribe to our NewsletterThis Date in Baseball Feb 13th - The Negro Baseball League is born
| 1920 |   A group of eight midwestern team owners meet at the Kansas City YMCA to organize the Negro National League, which will become one of the most successful ventures of its kind. Rube Foster, the owner and manager of the American Giants, will become president of the new circuit, leading to accusations of favoritism, which appear especially true when the schedule had Chicago play a disproportionate number of games at home. |
