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Negro leagues

Negro leagues

 
pronunciation:
ni gro ligz
part of speech: noun
definition: former U.S. baseball leagues in which all players were Black. The Negro leagues were at their peak from the 1920s to the early 1950s. In the late 1940s, Black players began to be asked to join the U.S. major leagues and eventually the Negro leagues disappeared.