Sights of the Past

One of the problems in earlier years in researching and exploring the history of baseball's Negro Leagues was a low availability of resources. Newspaper accounts were primarily in black papers and many of those had not been collected or organized. Photos were hard to come by.

But in recent years, as the records from papers like the Chicago Defender and others have been much more widely available, a lot more data on the teams and players has surfaced. So have pictures, and the National Baseball Hall of Fame site has a new collection of more than 200 images of the well-known teams like Homestead Grays and Kansas City Monarchs as well as some of the lesser-known teams and players.

Well worth checking out!