Homestead Grays win 1944 Negro Leagues World Series

The Homestead Grays (NNL champions, led by Josh Gibson and Buck Leonard) won the 1944 Negro Leagues World Series against the Birmingham Black Barons. The Grays' wartime dynasty represented the apogee of the Negro Leagues as a professional institution, drawing record Black wartime attendance at a moment when integration of Major League Baseball was becoming an increasingly urgent demand.