A successful Negro league was created in 1920 when team owners met at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City Mo in 1920. I grew up in Kansas City and neighborhoods were divided by ethnicity and race with DMZ zones known as parks. One thing that all these neighborhoods shared in common was a love of baseball and that included the kids that lived in that Paseo neighborhood. Baseball and other sports were our first interactions with other neighborhoods. So I want to play an All Star game which gives tribute to the Negro leagues and also see some of the historic demographics of the game with a 4 team round robin tournament using the Inside Pitch board game. Team names:
Black Diamonds ( Afro-American players) Internationalists ( Foreign born players) Confederates ( players born in Southern and Western states) Federalists ( players born in Northern and Eastern states )
note: some players* may play for teams where there were insufficient players in a pool
The 1986 rosters:
BLACK DIAMONDS KANSAS CITY
Hitters
Tony Pena c Eddie Murray 1b Frank White 2b Hubie Brooks ss Tony Pendleton 3b Jim Rice lf Rickey Henderson cf Joe Carter rf Dave Parker dh
Bench
Ashby c * Madlock ut Whitaker 2b Smith. O. ss Brown C. 3b Raines of Davis E of Gwynn of Barfield of Phillips ut Coleman of
Pitchers
Gooden NYM Candeleria CAL Boyd BST Blue SF Stewart Oak Jones O BLT Youmans MTL Guante Pit Moore D Cal Smith L CHC
INTERNATIONALISTS LOS ANGELES
HITTERS
Pena c Hernandez 1b Samuel 2b Fernandez ss Franco 3b Canseco lf Davis C cf Maldonado rf Bell dh
Bench
Diaz c Gallaraga 1b Garcia D 2b Griffin A. ss Guillen ss Cruz of White of Sierra of Tartabull of Virgil c Oquendo ut
PITCHERS
Valenzuela Blyleven Higuera Cox McCaskill Ojeda Fernandez Darling* Berenguer Williams F.
CONFEDERATES ATLANTA
HITTERS
Davis c Davis 1b Sandberg 2b Trammel ss Brett 3b Snyder of Dykstra of Bass of Puckett of
BENCH
Carter c Clark 1b Sax 2b Burleson ss Parrish 3b McReynolds of Pettis of Hayes ut Lynn of Fletcher if
PITCHERS
Scott Downs Hurst Witt Rhoden Davis. M. Righetti Eichhorn Schraldi Thigpen Orosco
FEDERALISTS
Parrish c Mattingly 1b Oester 2b Ripken ss Schmidt 3b Winfield of Manning of Baines of Gibson dh
BENCH
Whitt c Hrbek 1b Doran 2b Gaetti if Boggs 3b Hall of Boston of Yount ut Horner 1b Grich ut Cangelosi of
PITCHERS
Clemens Morris Tudor Tewksbury John Haas Plesac Franco Kerfeld Tekulve
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