“Pride and Passion: The African American Baseball Experience,” was on exhibit from October through November in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library. The exhibit tells the story of black baseball players in the U.S. over the past century and a half.
Although many blacks played baseball with whites in the nineteenth century as amateurs and also played on minor league teams through the 1880s, black players were not allowed to compete with whites when major league baseball was created in the mid-1890s. To counter this discrimination, they organized teams made up entirely of black players and formed leagues that were known collectively as the Negro Leagues.
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