Download or read book When to Stop the Cheering? written by Brian Carroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-29 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball beginning with the first Negro professional league of substance, the Negro National League, which started in 1920, and finishing with the dissolution of the Negro American League in 1957.