Black baseball entrepreneurs, 1902-1931: the Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues

Part one. Independent ball, 1902-1920. Continuity and change ; Black professional baseball's growth and expansion, 1906-1907 ; Striving for professionalism ; Years of transition, 1911-1913 ; Black baseball and the separate black economy ; The war years: toward the rise of the negro leagues

Part two. The rise and fall of the Negro National and Eastern Colored Leagues, 1920-1931. Pitfalls of baseball: the rise of the Negro National League ; Black baseball war: the rise of the Eastern Colored League ; Pursuing peace ; Caught in a rundown ; Before the fall ; The end of an era.