The California Winter League : America's first integrated professional baseball league
"The California Winter League was the first to bring together Negro league teams and white professional teams in one league. Operating from October through February from the early part of the century until the late 1940s, it generally consisted of one or more Negro league teams, which included Hall-of-Famers Satchel Paige, Turkey Stearnes, Willie Wells, and Cool Papa Bell on their rosters, and three or more white teams made up of major league players who lived in California as well as minor leaguers from the top-rated Pacific Coast League."
Print Book, English, ©2002
McFarland, Jefferson, N.C., ©2002