Minor Scheduling Conflict
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The Texas Colored League served as one of several minor league systems in black baseball. Players like Crush Holloway, who played in the league, went on to professional success in the Negro Leagues. Though the Waco team completed its inaugural season in the Texas Colored League in 1919, the city could not sustain a team for the duration of the 1920 season listed on this schedule.
This file appears in: Black Baseball in Waco
Black Baseball in Waco
As “America’s pastime,” baseball also imbibed the country’s original sin: racism. This scourge haunted the game from its earliest days, but by the start of the twentieth century the formal segregation of baseball was complete and remained so until…