The sports pages report the football results of October 16, 1920, including a page devoted to local high school games. There is a small article, however, about the upcoming championship game at Ebbets Field between the Rube Foster‘s American Giants of Chicago, and the Bacharach Giants led by pitcher Cannon Ball Dick Redding. This year we celebrate Foster’s legacy:

In 1920, Foster set the wheels in motion to create the Negro National League, an association of black teams modeled after Major League Baseball. Foster was named president and treasurer. The first successful league for African-American players, the NNL flourished throughout the decade. Players’ salaries rose to an unprecedented level, teams traveled on Pullman coaches and players received regular bonuses.

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Foster gained the Hall of Fame in 1981.