Negro League Legends HOF Annual East/West Vitage Baseball Game & Car Show

4101 Crain Hwy,Bowie MD 20716

07 August, 2021

Description

The game is played by former Major/Minor MLB players , Local Leagues and Collegiate players dressed in vintage attire ... This historical NLLHOF Vintage Baseball Game is being played in observance of Negro League Legends Hall of Fame week saluting the 88th year Anniversary of the Negro East-West game and the Negro National League 100 year Anniversary 1 year later. Some of the remaining players from the Negro League and Negro Sandlot League will be in attendance. Meet the Negro League players during the autograph signing and memorabilia ... PART I ... see all 4 episodes at www.nllhof.org The vision of the Negro League Legends Hall of Fame is to educate the young and old about the contributions of the Colored Professional League and the Negro leagues in American Baseball history. There were over 3,000 players that played from the 1900’s to the early 1960’s. They were the pioneers in a league of some of the greatest players to play the game of baseball. Segregation kept them from playing in the white major leagues until Jackie Robinson officially broke the color barrier in the modern era but they played integrated.