Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball June 9, 2012

This selection of baseball cards, illustrating some of the earliest and most illustrious players who moved from the Negro Leagues into the Majors, is taken from the Jefferson R. Burdick Collection. The more than thirty thousand baseball cards collected by Burdick date from 1887 to 1959 and represent the most comprehensive collection outside of the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.