Blackbaseball's Negro Baseball Leagues

Rube Foster covered the entire spectrum of baseball and excelled at each phase of his participation.

There has never been a more masterful thirdbaseman than Ray Dandridge.

The most consistently outstanding pitcher in the Negro National League during the late 1930′s and 1940′s, Leon Day was a heady pitcher whose money pitch was his fastball.

A half-brother of the famous Rube Foster, Willie Foster was the greatest left-handed pitcher from the Negro Leagues.

An outstanding pitcher with a tremendous fastball, a fine curve and good control, “Bullet” Rogan was a star for the Kansas City Monarchs for almost 20 years.

During the first half of its existence, Smokey Joe Williams was to black baseball what Satchel Paige was to the latter half.

A left-handed power threat, Turkey Stearnes played “long ball” for 19 years in the Negro Leagues beginning in 1923, his first year in the league, when he hit 35 home runs.

A teammate of Satchel Paige’s on the Kansas City Monarchs, Hilton Smith was best known for being Satchel’s “relief.”