INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)
Introduced by: President Young, Councilmember Welch
A RESOLUTION ENTITLED
A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Baltimore City Celebration of Negro Baseball League Day
FOR the purpose of joining in the annual celebration of Negro Baseball League Day on the second Saturday of May in recognition of the talent of the great players of the Negro Baseball League who, for the love of the sport, persevered to play professional baseball in a league of their own while consistently denied entrance to Major League Baseball.
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In a Concurrent Resolution designating May 20, 2006, as “Negro Leagues Recognition Day”, the 109th U.S. Congress recognized that, even though African Americans were excluded from playing in the major leagues of their time with their white counterparts, the desire of many African Americans could not be repressed, and they began organizing their own professional teams in 1885.
The Resolution states further that, although the skills and abilities of Negro League players eventually made Major League Baseball realize the need to integrate the sport fully in July 1959, African Americans organized six separate baseball leagues known collectively as the Negro Baseball Leagues between 1920 and 1960, where talented players played the game at its highest level.
Maryland was an integral part of the Negro Baseball League, playing host to a number of professional African American teams, including the Snow Hill Nine, the Pocomoke City Giants, the Denton Blue Sox, and the Crisfield Giants of the Colored Baseball League of the Eastern Sh...
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