The second Negro Southern League (NSL) was one of the several

Negro baseball leagues The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The NSL was organized as a minor league in 1945 and lasted until 1951.

League history

Nine team owners met in February 1945 in Nashville, Tennessee, to form a new minor league named after an old minor league. The 1948 season received very little coverage in the press and is hard to piece together. Additionally, a new league, the

Negro American Association The Negro American Association was the name of two different minor league Negro baseball leagues. Negro American Association (1939) The first Negro American Association was organized in 1939, lasting one season. This league was to be a farm sys ...

, formed and lured away at least four of the stronger teams, including the

Atlanta Black Crackers The Atlanta Black Crackers (originally known as the Atlanta Cubs and later briefly the Indianapolis ABCs) were a professional Negro league baseball team which played during the early to mid-20th century. They were primarily a minor Negro league ...

. The league did not organize for the 1952 season due to attendance figures being expected to be too low to be profitable. The second Negro Southern League was dissolved after seven seasons.

Negro Southern League franchises

*Note: An "associate team" is one who is not a member of the league, but games played against them by league teams count in the league standings.

League champions

Most seasons were split in halves, with the winner of the first half of the season playing the winner of the second half of the season in a formal league play-off that decided the Pennant winner. For some years it is unclear if a split season was played and if the second half schedule was completed. In the below list, the first half winner is noted with a raised "1" and the second half winner is noted with a raised "2". * 1945 Atlanta Black Crackers * 1946 Asheville Blues (won both halves) * 1947 Asheville¹ defeated New Orleans Creoles², 3g-2g * 1948 New Orleans Creoles (won both halves, reportedly) * 1949 Gadsden-Florida Tigers¹ / Nashville Cubs², no play-off reported * 1950 undetermined * 1951 undetermined

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