SiTG Baseball Stories Vol. 6: Eastern Colored League: Part II

Rube Foster founded the first successful Black baseball league, the Negro National League, in the Midwest in 1920. Three years later the leading Black clubs of the East followed suit and organized the Eastern Colored League. For seven seasons the ECL and its short-lived successor, the American Negro League, brought organized league ball to cities like New York, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore.

This two-part presentation on the history of the ECL highlights legendary teams like the Hilldale Club and Bacharach Giants, and Hall of Fame players like Oscar Charleston, Biz Mackey, and Jud Wilson, as well as some of the league’s lesser-known stars. We will also look at the first four Negro World Series, and the impact the ECL had on the communities it served and the overall development of Black baseball.

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Josh Gibson Foundation