How many games could Negro league players compete in during a season?

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Negro league The 1935 roster of the Negro league team the Pittsburgh Crawfords, including Cool Papa Bell (seventh from right), Josh Gibson (fourth from right), and Satchel Paige (second from right).

To earn a living, players in the Negro leagues often competed in up to 150 games per season.1

Because these teams frequently lacked exclusive access to ballparks and faced financial instability, they relied heavily on barnstorming to generate revenue. Consequently, only about one-third to one-half of their games were played against other league teams; the remainder were played against various Black and white nonleague opponents, including local semipro and small-town teams.12