The Eastern Colored League was one of the several Negro Leagues which were created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The ECL lasted from 1923 to part of the 1928 season.
The American Negro League (ANL) was a professional baseball league that operated on the east coast of the United States in 1929.
The league operated with a split-season format, in which the schedule was divided into two halves, with the winners of each half to play a series for the pennant.
This league is not to be confused with the later Negro American League, which was based in midwestern and southern cities.
EasternColoredLeague, 1923-1928; the NNL and ECL champions met in a World Series in 1926 and 1927.
After the integration of the major leagues in 1947, as marked by the appearance of Jackie Robinson with the Brooklyn Dodgers that April, interest in Negro League baseball waned.
Negro League owners who complained about this practice were in a no-win situation: they could not protect their own interests without seeming to interfere with the advancement of players to the majors.
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