I'm doing my Senior research project on "The Impact of the ***** Leagues in America" and I need as much information as possible.
2006-09-20 02:04:17 · 7 answers · asked by lisamariewilliams25 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
Not much of an impact at all or hard to say, since noone knows anything about any of the players and there is no real way of benchmarking their stats or abilities of the day that they played. So tell your teacher/professor that it's a stupid assignment.
2006-09-20 05:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Guylemieux 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Huge impact. It actually became quite popular in the early 30s during the depression because big league games cost too much. It was a way for small towns to get baseball and they even played night games before white baseball did. Here are some players you might want to look up who epitomized the ***** leagues both on the level of legend/talent and frustration.
Rube Foster
Satchel Paige
Josh Gibson
"Cool Papa" Bell
More or less, the biggest impact was hope and pride. In over 400 exhibition games between ***** league teams and white teams, the ***** league teams had a winning percentage over 60%. This lead to the realization by owners and managers that African Americans could play just as well if not better than the white players. The ***** leagues created the effort of MLB managers in trying to break the color barrier which eventually happened.
The breaking of the color barrier in baseball was, in my opinion, more important than most of the events leading up to Martin Luther King...this might sound like its making a mountain out of a molehill but having seen a black player succeed in the major leagues showed that white people did not have the superiority that they claimed to have over African-americans. This probably was a cause that led to the increased sense of pride seen and resulting in the Civil Rights Movement.
2006-09-20 21:58:06 · answer #2 · answered by miamiman 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go to the Library. Go to site ***** Leagues Baseball History and then click on athletes.
These are some players from the ***** Leagues that starred in MLB:
Aaron
Banks
Campanella
Doby
M. Irwin
Mays
Robinson
This is why I discount all MLB records that occurred before Jackie Robinson integrated baseball.
Some people just don't know, but they should.
2006-09-20 16:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by smitty 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well the ***** Leagues was a baseball league for African Americans to strut their own talents in baseball since to big league segregated the sport because of corruption and racism from white baseball owners and clubs that did not allow African Americans to play on their teams or work with them.
2006-09-20 09:22:02 · answer #4 · answered by roburo2002 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don think its effected anything
most ppl don care if your black or white
(unless their a racist)
black ppl r som of the best athletes out there
most ppl r "2 big" 2 admit it!
so there u hav it.
2006-09-20 10:39:14 · answer #5 · answered by total.hippy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOGAND 10 no wait your a big fat 0 There's no place in here for a racist asshole,,OH I GET IT YOU MUST BE A RED SOX FAN!
2006-09-21 21:06:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
They ruined baseball, they should stick to basketball.
2006-09-20 09:35:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋