On February 13, 1920, Andrew “Rube” Foster gathered a few other Midwestern team owners together for a meeting in the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. Foster had been a dominant pitcher for the Philadelphia Cuban X-Giants, recording 44 game wins in a row in 1902 and earning the nickname “Black Christy Mathewson,” so it was unsurprising that he approached this meeting with a game plan already in place. He arrived with an official charter document for the Negro National League already prepared, and within that day they formed the Negro National League.
In the birthplace of the Negro Leagues, Mariners triumph
