An unwritten rule barred Negro's from participating in white organized baseball.In response to this exclusion, Andrew "Rube" Foster, a former Negro League player for the Cuban X Giants and Chicago American Giants, formed the Negro National League in 1920. This new league was the first of its kind and others followed: the Negro Southern League in 1929, the East/West League in 1932 and the Negro American League in 1937. These new leagues allowed arguably the best baseball players black or white to showcase there talents thereby producing some of Americas greatest baseball players such as James "Cool Pappa" Bell, Oscar Charleston, Ray Dandridge, Martin Dihigo, Andrew "Rube" Foster, Josh Gibson, Roy Campanella, William "Judy" Johnson, Buck Leonard, John Henry Lloyd and Satchel Paige. The white owners realized the talents of Negro baseball players as far back as 1884, when Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first Negro player to play in white organized baseball for the Toledo Blue Stockings, with his brother Weldy Wilberforce Walker joining the team later that same year. There were no other Negro baseball players allowed to play in white organized baseball until 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. There were over 60 more Negro League players to follow Jackie into the Major Leagues over the next 13 years. This defection from the Negro Leagues caused the leagues to gradually lose their appeal, and they were eventually FORGOTTEN. What you may have never known existed in your history books, is now a statement in your choice of clothing. DMD presents "THE FORGOTTEN NEGRO BASEBALL LEAGUES COLLECTION."                     Note: Historical information provided by THE NEGRO LEAGUES BOOK by Dick Clark and Larry Lester.