isplay their great skill. Rube Foster created the first black owned Negro league and it had eight teams , hailing from Kansas City , Indianapolis , Dayton , Chicago , Detroit , and St. Louis. ( 18) Foster wanted to “ keep Colored baseball from the control of the whites” ( 19) and do something good for his race. Three players dominated the early Negro League , “Smokey Joe’ Williams , Bullet Joe Rogan, and Oscar Charleston. The hard throwing Williams , dominated batters and won many games. Rogan was another pitcher but used control pitches and batted clean up. Charleston was a hard hitting center fielder with tremendous speed. Four hundred thousand people came to see some of the games in Foster’s Negro League until the Great Depression hit and the league had to suspend operations entirely because of low attendance. African-American baseball from 1900-1930 was in it’s their infancy during the time period. Early in the century exhibition games were played and many players displayed much skill. Later on , the formation of Negro Leagues occurred , but in their early years could not complete with white baseball and did not take off until later in the 1930s. The history of Baseball from 1900-1930 was a largely diverse history full of interesting information. The modern National and American leagues began play against one another in the early 20th century. Baseball began to become America’s national baseball , characterizing the country and the people who lived there. People flocked to baseball games during the time period from ...
