Logo of another legendary team from the old Negro Leagues, the Newark Eagles. Playing in the Negro National League from 1933 to 1948, the team boasted many famous African American future major leaguers, including Larry Doby, the first player to integrate the American League, Monte Irvin, Don Newcombe and four players who never got the opportunity to play in the majors but were elected the baseball’s Hall of Fame on the merits of their Negro League years – Willie Wells, Ray Dandridge, Biz Mackie and Leon Day. The Eagles were said to be, in Newark’s black community, the equivalent of what the Dodgers were to Brooklyn.