This document discusses the connections between baseball, music, and black cultural expression in the early-to-mid 20th century. It provides examples of how baseball players and musicians socialized together and influenced each other in cities like Kansas City and Pittsburgh. Musicians would attend baseball games and players would frequent nightclubs to see performances. Figures like Cab Calloway and Satchel Paige straddled both worlds. Lyricists also drew inspiration from the struggle for integration in baseball. The document calls for further research into this intersection of sport and music.