Black History Month Links:

Interactive Timeline:

http://www.biography.com/blackhistory/black-history-timeline.jsp

Biographies:

http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/

Negro League Baseball Museum:

http://www.coe.ksu.edu/nlbemuseum/history/overview.html

Directions: Use the following narrative to complete the “Negro League Museum” section of your webquest.

Josh Gibson was aptly titled "the black 1) ______________," and his 2)____________ (Define)  presence in the batter's box personified 3)________________ and 4)___________________ (define) a crowd. The slugger's rolled up left sleeve revealed the 5)___________________ (define) strength in his massive arm muscles, and his eyes 6)_________________(define) the pitcher from beneath a turned up cap bill as he awaited the pitch with a casual 7)____________________. Hitting from a semi-crouched, flat- footed stance and without striding, he generated a 8)___________________ swing that produced tape measure 9)___________________ with such regularity that they came to be expected as the 10)_______________________.

A mixture of fact and embellishment, Satchel Paige's stories are legendary and form a rich array of often-repeated 11)________________(define). On many occasions he would pull in the outfielders to sit behind the mound while he proceeded to 12)__________________ the side with the tying run on base. Once he intentionally walked Howard Easterling and Buck Leonard to load the bases so he could pitch to Josh Gibson, the most 13)_________________ hitter in black baseball, and then struck him out. He was advertised as guaranteed to strike out the first nine batters he faced in exhibition games, and he almost 14)_______________(define) fulfilled his billing.