About
In 2001, Strat-O-Matic Media, LLC, published the Strat-O-Matic Baseball Hall of Fame 2000 set, which includes players from the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and then in 2009, the company published the Negro League All-Stars set, which includes the best players from the segregated negro leagues of baseball, for use with the company's flagship Strat-O-Matic Baseball board game. Both of these sets are extra special in that they were printed in full color, as they should be, because baseball should be played in full color.
It wasn't always this way. Around 1920 and into the late 1940s, black athletes were excluded from major league baseball and the minor leagues, which meant white and "colored" players did not play together. Instead, black athletes were forced to form their own leagues: the negro leagues.
This web site is devoted to a project that, in some small way, intends desegregate baseball in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, by reporting results of games played between integrated teams of all-stars using the Strat-O-Matic Baseball board game. In this alternate universe, all baseball players will stand shoulder-to-shoulder and play the American pastime, together.
If you wish to learn more about the negro leagues, visit the Negro Leagues Database at Seamheads.com.
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