This list consists of players who have appeared in Negro league baseball.
The list is divided into four pages to reduce the size:
- List of Negro league baseball players (A–D)
- List of Negro league baseball players (E–L)
- List of Negro league baseball players (M–R)
- List of Negro league baseball players (S–Z)
The players below are some of the most notable of those who played Negro league baseball, beginning with the codification of baseball’s color line barring African American players (about 1892), past the re-integration in 1946 of the sport, up till the Negro leagues finally expired about 1962. Members of the Baseball Hall of Fame are noted with a β. Names of those who played in integrated organized white leagues are boldfaced, and those who played in integrated major leagues are also italicized.
- pre-Negro leagues (1877-1919)
They played primarily before the organized Negro leagues. Among them Fowler, Frank Grant, George Stovey, and Fleet Walker were notable players especially during the 1880s, before complete segregation.
- Walter Ball
- William Binga
- Irvin "Chester" Brooks
- Sam Crawford
- Bingo DeMoss
- William "Dizzy" Dismukes
- John Donaldson
- Rube Foster β
- Bud Fowler
- Bill Gatewood
- Charlie Grant
- Frank Grant β
- Pete Hill β
- Jim Jeffries
- Chappie Johnson
- Grant "Home Run" Johnson
- Louis "Dicta" Johnson
- John Henry Lloyd β
- Jimmie Lyons
- Dan McClellan
- Hurley McNair
- José Méndez β
- Bill Monroe
- Bruce Petway
- Spot Poles
- Dick Redding
- Louis Santop β
- George Stovey
- Ben Taylor β
- C. I. Taylor
- Candy Jim Taylor
- Steel Arm Johnny Taylor
- Fleet Walker
- Welday Walker
- Sol White β
- Dick Whitworth
- Frank Wickware
- Cyclone Joe Williams β
- Negro leagues era I (1920-1934)
They played most of their careers in the organized Negro leagues before the Great Depression.
- Newt Allen
- Bernardo Baró
- John Beckwith
- Cool Papa Bell β
- William "W" Bell
- Chet Brewer
- Dave Brown
- Larry Brown
- George "Tank" Carr
- Oscar Charleston β
- Phil Cockrell
- Andy Cooper β
- George Reuben "Rube" Currie
- Walter C. "Steel Arm" Davis
- Martín Dihigo β
- Rap Dixon
- Bill "Plunk" Drake
- Frank Duncan
- Bill Foster β
- Floyd "Jelly Roll" Gardner
- Vic Harris
- Fats Jenkins
- Judy Johnson β
- Oscar "Heavy" Johnson
- Newt Joseph
- Dick Lundy
- Biz Mackey β
- "Gentleman Dave" Malarcher
- Oliver Marcelle
- Dobie Moore
- Dink Mothell
- Emilio "Millito" Navarro
- Alejandro Oms
- Satchel Paige β
- Bullet Rogan β
- Pythias Russ
- George Scales
- Silas Simmons
- Chino Smith
- Turkey Stearnes β
- Mule Suttles β
- Cristóbal Torriente β
- Frank Warfield
- Willie Wells β
- Jud Wilson β
- Nip Winters
- Negro leagues era II (1935-1949)
They played most of their careers in the organized Negro leagues after the Great Depression.
- Dan Bankhead
- Sam Bankhead
- Bob Boyd
- Ray Brown β
- Willard Brown β
- Bill Byrd
- Roy Campanella β
- Buster Clarkson
- Jimmie Crutchfield
- Ray Dandridge β
- Leon Day β
- Larry Doby β
- Luke Easter
- Wilmer Fields
- Josh Gibson β
- Junior Gilliam
- Sammy Hughes
- Monte Irvin β
- Sam Jethroe
- Byron "Mex" Johnson
- Connie Johnson
- Henry Kimbro
- Buck Leonard β
- Max Manning
- Luis Márquez
- Willie Mays β
- Henry McHenry
- Minnie Miñoso
- Don Newcombe
- Buck O'Neil
- Red Parnell
- Art "Superman" Pennington
- Alex Radcliffe
- Ted Radcliffe
- Jackie Robinson β
- Gene Smith
- Hilton Smith β
- Hank Thompson
- Bob Thurman
- Quincy Trouppe
- Artie Wilson
- Bill Wright
- Post-integration (1950-1962)
They played during the decline of the Negro leagues, after the beginning of integration.
- Hank Aaron β
- Ernie Banks β
- Ike Brown
- Joe "Prince" Henry
- Mamie "Peanut" Johnson
- Connie Morgan
- Charley Pride
- Toni Stone
Famous quotes containing the words baseball players, list of, list, negro, league, baseball and/or players:
“The talk shows are stuffed full of sufferers who have regained their health—congressmen who suffered through a serious spell of boozing and skirt-chasing, White House aides who were stricken cruelly with overweening ambition, movie stars and baseball players who came down with acute cases of wanting to trash hotel rooms while under the influence of recreational drugs. Most of them have found God, or at least a publisher.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1935)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“Shea—they call him Scholar Jack—
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,
The bearded man and the lad in his teens,
Carpenters, coal-passers—all.”
—Joseph I. C. Clarke (1846–1925)
“the negro Babo took by succession each Spaniard forward, and asked him whose skeleton that was, and whether, from its whiteness, he should not think it a white’s.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward the Light Brigade!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
—Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)