Negro National League baseball #1163

Caption from poster__      The Negro National league   Established in 1920   The Negro Leagues were professional baseball leagues comprising predominantly African-American teams. The t erm may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning 1920 that are sometimes termed "Negro major leagues". The first professional team, established in 1885, achieved great and lasting success as the Cuban Giants, while the first league, the National Colored Base Ball League, failed in 1887 after only two weeks due to low attendance. The Negro American League of 1951 is considered the last major league season and the last professional club, the Indianapolis Clowns, operated amusingly rather than competitively from the mid-1960s to 1980s.     The Negro National League (NNL) was one of the several Negro Leagues which were established during the period in the United States in which organized bas