An article today in “Live Auction Talk” is about the Negro National Baseball League which offered blacks their only shot at playing organized ball in 1920.

The Negro League was a black monopoly that became the largest of its kind in the country. It was also one of the last times blacks controlled their own major league sports organizations.

On March 6, Hunt Auctions of Exton, Pa., featured a selection of photographs, posters, banners, game tickets and other ephemera from the Negro League era in its Sports Memorabilia and Cards auction.

The picture to the right is of five uniformed players of the Nashville Elite Giants from 1935 and sold at Hunt Auctions for $805.

Some other items sold were:

• Satchel Paige photograph; autographed; Paige pitching in Cleveland Indians uniform; black-and-white; 8 inches by 10 inches; $805.
• Ticket stub; National Colored All Star Baseball Game; Sept. 10, 1933; $1,265.
• Souvenir program; Negro World Series; played between Cleveland Buckeyes and New York Cubans; 1947; $1,725.
• Photographic broadside; Satchel Paige; Negro All Stars game; game between Paige’s Negro All Stars and Louisville Black Colonels; cardboard; circa 1930s; 11 inches by 17 inches; $4,485.

You can read the original article by clicking here.

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