Advice on Researching Negro League history

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Originally Posted by Butch7999

An enormous amount of effort has already been put into Negro League research, so make sure, first,
that you're not spending time digging up stuff that's already been dug up.

The Complete Book of Baseball's Negro Leagues by John Holway et al is regarded as the best, most thorough,
and most accurate of many books on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book.../dp/0803820070

That's more than fifteen years old, though, and surely even more information has been unearthed since then.
A scholarly compendium of Negro League data entailing about 5,000 pages was in the works in recent years,
but we're unclear who was behind it or what its status is.

In any case, we'd strongly advise contacting the Negro Leagues Committee of SABR for guidance before you
do more work than might be necessary -- the specific information you want may already be available.

Thanks! I emailed them.

I haven't seen a project yet that attempts to go to the depth that I am hoping for (my goal is to take a small period of time - 1 season or so) and dig as deep as possible to get as good a feel as possible. My thought process is that the whole of the Negro Leagues seems to be bunched together into big statistics and the like with a few interesting biographies, but the day to day details are often lost. My hope would be to find some of that.

Originally Posted by toledo_mudhen

If you have never been there - The Negro League Baseball Museum is downtown Kansas City. Awesome way to spend a day.... highly recommend

http://nlbm.com/

I imagine it is an amazing place. Hopefully one day...