RUBE FOSTER | The Negro Leagues enter a new era with Foster's takeover of the Leland Giants. Rube Foster's Hall of Fame plaque states that he was "rated foremost manager and executive in [the] history of Negro Leagues." It is a fitting but lacking tribute. The groundwork that Foster laid with his Negro National League was the blueprint for all other black leagues to follow it. Foster was the man that began construction of the journey that eventually carried Jackie Robinson to Brooklyn in 1947.

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