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Negro leagues

 
pronunciation:
ni gro ligz
part of speech: noun
definition 1: former U.S. baseball leagues in which all players were Black. The Negro leagues were most prominent from the 1920s to the early 1950s, after which Black players were increasingly integrated into the U.S. major leagues.
definition 2: (sing.) a single baseball league within the Negro leagues.