Negro League
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A Team in Yeadon Played in the First Negro League World Series 100 Years Ago
There’s a blue sign on MacDade Blvd. in Yeadon that marks the spot where The Hilldale Athletic Club, who played in the first Negro League…
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Delaware County Played Its Part in the History of Black Baseball
Black baseball history wouldn’t be complete without the influence of one team, the Hilldale League, out of Darby Borough. Black baseball teams formed in Philadelphia…
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Remembering Delaware County’s Black Baseball Players
The Eden Cemetery in Collingdale is the final resting place for about 17 ball players from the Negro Leagues. But you’d never know it. The…
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Players Dwindle in 75-year Fairmount Park League, But It Keeps Going
The Fairmount Park League was a place where segregated Black ball players from the Philadelphia region who dreamed of playing in the major leagues could…
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A Dream Led Upper Darby Woman to Her Grandfather’s Negro League Career
Tulleesha Burbage, an Upper Darby social worker, suffered a case of sleep paralysis after dreaming about running through an open field near an old shed,…
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