Black team owners established the Negro National League. Under Rube Foster’s leadership, the league started with eight teams.

But none of them was in Major League Baseball. Gibson was a star of the ... New Jersey. Once home to three Negro Leagues ...

Hinchliffe, which sits next to Paterson Great Falls, is one of the few Negro League baseball stadiums ... back then it was home to the New York Black Yankees, New York Cubans, and Newark Eagles.