On February 13, 1920, in a Kansas City YMCA, a group of Black baseball owners gathered under the leadership of Andrew “Rube” Foster and did something quietly revolutionary: they founded the Negro National League, the first successful, organized professional baseball league for African American…
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On December 21, 1891, in a modest gymnasium at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, a group of restless students unknowingly participated in a moment that would reshape sports history. James Naismith, a Canadian-American physical education instructor, had developed a new game…
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