II 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4104 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 
Received 
AN ACT 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint a coin 
in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the estab-
lishment of the Negro Leagues baseball. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Negro Leagues Base-
ball Centennial Commemorative Coin Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
(1) The year 2020 marks the 100th anniversary 
of the establishment of the Negro National League, 
a professional baseball league formed in response to 
African-American players being banned from the 
major leagues. 
(2) On February 13, 1920, Andrew ‘‘Rube’’ 
Foster convened a meeting of 8 independent Afri-
can-American baseball team owners at the Paseo 
YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri, to form a ‘‘league 
of their own,’’ establishing the Negro National 
League, the first successful, organized professional 
African-American baseball league in the United 
States. 
(3) Soon, additional leagues formed in eastern 
and southern States. 
(4) The Negro Leagues would operate for 40 
years until 1960. 
(5) The story of the Negro Leagues is a story 
of strong-willed athletes who forged a glorious his-
tory in the midst of an inglorious era of segregation 
in the United States. 
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(6) The passion of the Negro Leagues players 
for the ‘‘National Pastime’’ would not only change 
the game, but also the United States. 
(7) The creation of the Negro Leagues provided 
a playing field for more than 2,600 African-Amer-
ican and Hispanic baseball players to showcase their 
world-class baseball abilities. 
(8) The Negro Leagues introduced an exciting 
brand of baseball that was in stark contrast to 
Major League Baseball. 
(9) A fast, aggressive style of play attracted 
black and white fans who sat together to watch 
those games at a time when it was virtually unheard 
of to interact socially in such a way. 
(10) Negro Leagues baseball would become a 
catalyst for economic development across the United 
States in major urban centers such as Kansas City, 
St. Louis, New York, Memphis, Baltimore, Wash-
ington, DC, Chicago, and Atlanta. 
(11) The Negro Leagues pioneered ‘‘Night 
Baseball’’ in 1930, 5 years before Major League 
Baseball, and would introduce game-changing inno-
vations such as shin guards and the batting helmet. 
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(12) The Negro Leagues helped make the Na-
tional Pastime a global game as players from the 
Negro Leagues— 
(A) were the first people from the United 
States to play in many Spanish-speaking coun-
tries; and 
(B) introduced professional baseball to the 
Japanese in 1927. 
(13) Jackie Robinson, a military veteran and 
former member of the Negro Leagues’ Kansas City 
Monarchs, would break Major League Baseball’s 
color barrier on April 15, 1947, with the Brooklyn 
Dodgers, paving the way for other African-American 
and Hispanic baseball players. 
(14) The Negro Leagues were born out of seg-
regation yet would become a driving force for social 
change in the United States. 
(15) The Negro Leagues produced future Major 
League Baseball stars, including Leroy ‘‘Satchel’’ 
Paige, Larry Doby, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, 
Ernie Banks, and Roy Campanella. 
(16) The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was 
established in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1990— 
(A) to save from extinction a precious 
piece of Americana and baseball history; and 
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(B) to use the many life lessons of the 
powerful story of triumph over adversity of 
Negro Leagues players to promote tolerance, di-
versity, and inclusion. 
(17) In 2006, Congress granted National Des-
ignation to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, 
recognizing it as ‘‘America’s Home’’ for Negro 
Leagues baseball history. 
SEC. 3. COIN SPECIFICATIONS. 
(a) DENOMINATIONS.—The Secretary of the Treas-
ury (hereafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) 
shall mint and issue the following coins: 
(1) $5 GOLD COINS.—Not more than 50,000 $5 
coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 8.359 grams; 
(B) have a diameter of 0.850 inches; and 
(C) contain not less than 90 percent gold. 
(2) $1 SILVER COINS.—Not more than 400,000 
$1 coins, which shall— 
(A) weigh 26.73 grams; 
(B) have a diameter of 1.500 inches; and 
(C) contain not less than 90 percent silver. 
(3) HALF-DOLLAR
CLAD
COINS.—Not more 
than 400,000 half-dollar coins which shall— 
(A) weigh 11.34 grams; 
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(B) have a diameter of 1.205 inches; and 
(C) be minted to the specifications for half- 
dollar coins contained in section 5112(b) of title 
31, United States Code. 
(b) LEGAL TENDER.—The coins minted under this 
Act shall be legal tender, as provided in section 5103 of 
title 31, United States Code. 
(c) NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For purposes of section 
5134 of title 31, United States Code, all coins minted 
under this Act shall be considered to be numismatic items. 
SEC. 4. DESIGNS OF COINS. 
(a) DESIGN REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The designs of the coins 
minted under this Act shall be emblematic of the 
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and its mission to 
promote tolerance, diversity, and inclusion. 
(2) DESIGNATION
AND
INSCRIPTIONS.—On 
each coin minted under this Act there shall be— 
(A) a designation of the value of the coin; 
(B) an inscription of the year ‘‘2022’’; and 
(C) inscriptions of the words ‘‘Liberty’’, 
‘‘In God We Trust’’, ‘‘United States of Amer-
ica’’, and ‘‘E Pluribus Unum’’. 
(b) SELECTION.—The designs for the coins minted 
under this Act shall be— 
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