After the 1933 All-Star Game: The first East-West Negro League All-Star Classic

After the 1933 All-Star Game: The first East-West Negro League All-Star Classic - South Side Sox: "Two months after Babe Ruth helped usher in the Midsummer Classic in July of 1933, an equally significant star-studded affair took hold at Comiskey Park -- the East-West Negro League All-Star Classic.

If I could be transported in time to witness any single baseball event, this would be the one. You had Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston, Cool Papa Bell, Judy Johnson, Willie Wells, Turkey Stearns and Mule Suttles all on the same field, and playing for an event that turned out to be bigger than the Negro League's version of the World Series, which was inconsistently structured ... when the leagues could agree to play it at all."