Why did the initial negro league fail?

Answer 1

After the integration of professional Baseball two factors combined to bring about the collapse of the Negro Leagues: (a) the best players from the top Negro League teams were signed by Major League organizations, thus weakening the top Negro League teams, and (b) the interest of black fans was quickly drawn away from the Negro Leagues as they focused their interest on the performance of Jackie Robinson and other black pioneers in the major leagues

Answer 2

Negro League Baseball was started because at the time, blacks were not accepted into major and minor baseball leagues in the late 1800s. So, they eventually formed their own leagues and made professional teams to create a league by the 1880s, with the first known game being held on September 28, 1860 at Elysian Fields, in Hoboken, New Jersey between the Weeksville of New York and the Colored Union Club.

Although the black baseball teams and play was created on an amateur level, it became professionalized in the 1870s and the first known professional black baseball player was Bud Fowler. The first black professional baseball team, the Babylon Black Panthers formed by waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York, were formed in 1885.

Answer 3

The Negro League started in 1885 and ended in 1951. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947.