<p><strong>??? The greatest baseball players...you've never heard of ???</strong></p><p><em>Rube Foster Cool Papa Bell Monte Irvin Buck Leonard...they are some of the greatest players to ever play the game; so why have so few people heard of them? Because they never played in the MLB; they were the heroes of a baseball league often forgotten: The Negro League.</em></p><p>This book traces the history of the league from the early days of Professional Black Baseball and the formation of leagues to post-integration decline.</p><p>HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each book a brief period of history is recapped. We publish a wide array of topics (from baseball and music to science and philosophy) so check our growing catalog regularly to see our newest books.</p>