Kansas City won the first half of the season, Birmingham won the second half, and met in a play off series.
The NNL and the NAL faced each other in the Negro World Series at the end of the season to determine an overall champion.
After MLB integration in 1948, the league and its teams operated mostly as barnstorming units, and negro league baseball effectively came to an end.
NAL Champ.
World Series
z: best record, c: conference winner, y: division winner, w: wildcard, x: clinched playoff spot
NAL ChampionshipBest of 5-game seriesHome/Away matchups are not known. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Away | Score | Home | - | Series | ||||||||||||||
| ??? | Kansas City | ?-? | Birmingham | BBB 1-0 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | Kansas City | ?-? | Birmingham | BBB 2-0 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | Birmingham | ?-? | Kansas City | BBB 2-1 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | Kansas City | ?-? | Birmingham | BBB 3-1 | |||||||||||||||
Negro World SeriesBest of 7-game series | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date | Away | Score | Home | - | Series | ||||||||||||||
| 9/26 | (NAL) Birmingham | 2-3 | Homestead (NNL) | HOM 1-0 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | (NNL) Homestead | 5-3 | Birmingham (NAL) | HOM 2-0 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | (NNL) Homestead | 3-4 | Birmingham (NAL) | HOM 2-1 | |||||||||||||||
| ??? | (NAL) Birmingham | 1-14 | Homestead (NNL) | HOM 3-1 | |||||||||||||||
| 10/5 | (NNL) Homestead | 10-6 | Birmingham (NAL) | HOM 4-1 | |||||||||||||||
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Discussion with Hall of Fame Negro Leaguer Jim "Cool Papa" Bell / Historian Eugene C. Murdock interviewed several former baseball players that had been active in baseball in the 1920s and 1930s. Murdock was chairman of the history department at Marietta College. The interviews were not professionally recorded, and the audio quality is variable.
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