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Printable 5th grade history project checklist for creating a Negro League baseball card with player biography and career facts.
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Negro League Baseball Card Research Project

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This printable history project guides 5th graders to research and create a baseball card featuring a player from the Negro Leagues. Students choose from a provided list—including Oscar Charleston, Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, and Cool Papa Bell—or select their own. The card includes the player's name, team, photo, birth and death dates, biographical facts, career statistics, and a quote. Suitable for independent research, social-studies units on African-American history, or portfolio work.

Subject:
Social Studies
Topic:
History
Grade Level:
5th Grade
Updated May 2026

Word Bank

  • Oscar Charleston
  • “Bullet” Rogan
  • Rube Foster
  • Josh Gibson
  • Cool Papa Bell
  • Buck O’Neil
  • Roy Campanella
  • Willie Mays
  • Satchel Paige
  • Buck Leonard

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