Officially Licensed BigBoy HeadGear Negro League Baseball Jacket

Officially licensed BigBoy HeadGear Negro League Baseball Jacket Size Large along with (2) July 1993, Upper Deck "A Celebration of Early Black Baseball" collectable cards featuring Roy Campanella, Bill Wright, Andy Porter, Leon Day, Henry Kimbro and Luis Villodos. This large size jacket is 100% cotton with a 100% polyester lining and 7 stainless steel snap front buttons. It has a red and white striped poly/cotton waist band and sleeve ends. The jacket is adorned with 16 fully embroidered negro league colorful team logos, lettering and patches on a black background. This beautiful jacket has a large patch in the front honoring, "The Negro League" 1920 to 1960. The jacket is very well crafted with little noticeable wear and measures 31 1/2 inches from collar to waist, 48 inches around the chest area, 32 inches from collar to sleeve end and 24 inches in arm length. This jacket has been maintained in a smoke free and pet free environment and has been dry cleaned for instant wear. Please note that the jacket is dry clean only. Telling the story of baseball in America in the first decades of the 20th Century while only using the names of stars like Babe Ruth, Rogers Hornsby and Joe DiMaggio is indeed only telling half the story. For while Major League Baseball powered on as America’s favorite sport through the turn-of-the-century, the Roaring 20s, the Great Depression and World War II, an equally talented and equally entertaining league – if not more so, in the eyes of some – was also thrilling fans in many of the same ballparks. Black Americans have played the National Pastime since it first spread across the country like wildfire during the Civil War, but they were barred from the highest levels of organized baseball by unwritten rules and “gentleman’s agreements” as the 1800s came to a close. Black players still organized teams and barnstormed across the country, but it wasn’t in the organized forum fans have come to know today until one of those barnstorming players, a dominant pitcher named Rube Foster, envisioned a league where those Black stars could properly showcase their talents. Negro League Baseball remained wildly popular through the 1930s and early 1940s, with an estimated 3 million fans coming to ballparks during the ’42 season.

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