Southern black baseball league celebrates 100th anniversary, remembers history of segregation. - NBCBLK
She emphasized that “the accomplishments of all those involved should be celebrated, should be remembered,” but that it should be done within this context. “The only reason these leagues existed was because of our history of segregation,” she added.
The Negro Southern League, while successful in its own right, didn’t reach quite the same degree of success. It served for decades as a minor league in the South, feeding players to the NNL and other national leagues until it folded in 1951. "It was a long, hard struggle. We fought so long to get equality in the MLB and, you know, it's still going on," former Southern Negro League player Ernie"Big Dog" Fann told the NBC News local affiliateThough Robinson and a few others found success in the MLB, many black players were never given the chance. Fann, who devoted much of his life to the sport and played for several teams in the NSL, never got his shot in the MLB.
“It’s broader than people even think,” she said of this history of discrimination. “We’re looking at not just baseball history, not just sports history, we’re looking at the totality of American history and trying to understand all the different aspects of it. For a lot of people, I think one of the best ways to understand and see the importance of our past is through sports.”
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