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In 1920, Chicago American Giants owner Rube Foster met with other owners of independent black baseball teams at the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, MO and formed the first black baseball league to survive a full season, the Negro National League. Their motto "We Are the Ship. All else the Sea." symbolized their relationship with Major League Baseball. Most of the teams were located around the midwest. When Foster fell ill in 1928 he left the League leaderless. In 1931, with the onset of the depression and trying to survive with no leader, the League broke up. |