Just as
African-American players were banned from Major League baseball prior to 1947
because of racism, so were players from Latin America. There were a few light skinned Cubans that
played, but they faced racial discrimination and racial insults. Faced with the same racism as
African-Americans, Latin American ballplayers found a home in Negro league
baseball. The Cuban Stars, operating out
of Cincinnati, were one of the initial teams in the first major Negro
professional baseball league formed; the Negro National League (1920). The New York Cubans, made up of a mixture of
African-American and Latin American players, were in the revised Negro National
League that was formed in 1936 and won the Negro League World Series
championship in 1947.
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