Baseball in Washington’s black communities has a strong but quiet history. Most people know the segregated history of our national pastime, but few know how the story played out on the baseball fields in Seattle and throughout Washington. Left without a professional Negro League team until 1946, much of our State’s black baseball history was amateur and resultantly undocumented. The exhibition will introduce vignettes of our black baseball history with compelling artifacts, photographs, and oral histories collected from across the state. Pitch Black will explore the questions: Who played baseball and where? How did segregation and integration happen on our local baseball fields? When did we get a Negro League team? And What does black baseball look like today? This exhibition was curated by Chieko T. Phillips, Exhibitions Manager at NAAM in consultation with a community advisory committee comprised of Bill North, Joe Staton… . Additional curatorial assistance was elicited from Hal Kramer, Jordan Leonard, Barbara Johns, Vicki Halper, and Becky Alexander and Julie Nathon Sayigh of EDX Design.