SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — When the Occidentals, Utah’s all-Black baseball team, formed during the early 1900s, it pre-dated the National Negro Leagues by roughly 20 years. Additionally, the team would ...

In the early 1900s, baseball wasn’t a game for everyone, Black players were not allowed to play in the major Leagues, Jim Crow laws and the strong racial segregation following the Civil War put many ...

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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — A spokesperson for the Salt Lake Bees discovered Utah once had an all-Black baseball team called the Occidentals during the early 1900s. Kraig Williams, SL Bees Director of ...

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Baseball, America’s favorite pastime, has left unanswered questions as to who invented the beloved game. Baseball has been around since the 1840s, possibly even earlier, and there has been much ...

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