American Negro League

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The American Negro League was a short-lived professional Negro league baseball organization that operated in the United States in the late 1920s as part of the broader system of segregated Black baseball.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Negro league baseball organization
professional baseball league
alsoKnownAs ANL NERFINISHED
chronologyWithinNegroLeagues post–World War I era
competitionType professional sports league
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1929
era Jim Crow era in the United States NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork African American sports history
sports
governingBodyType baseball league
hasCharacteristic professional
segregated
short-lived
historicalSignificance part of the first wave of organized Negro major leagues
inception 1929
leagueLevel major Negro league
numberOfTeams 7
operatedIn United States of America
surface form: United States
operationalPeriod late 1920s
partOf Negro league baseball NERFINISHED
history of African-American baseball
playedUnderRulesOf professional baseball rules
precededBy Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED
primaryAudience African American communities
racialSegregationContext segregated Black baseball
regionServed Eastern United States NERFINISHED
replaced Eastern Colored League NERFINISHED
sport baseball
status defunct

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Eastern Colored League followedBy American Negro League
Negro Leagues hasPart American Negro League