In the book The Home Run King these boys Jimbo and Tank sneak into the negro league and one day the Mr.Munday stadium keeper caught one of the boys and wanted them to work for the chain gang to clean up after the white peoples trash that they left there. so they did that for 2 days and they made a deal with Mr. Munday to be the water boys for there favorite team and got to see the games for free. the season games went by fast and it was over so the boys did have anything to do. so they went down to the field and saw mr. munday nephew and he had a god idea and tank went to tell mr. munday. apllo told tank that we can make a negro league 4 kids and mr. munday said yes but Apllo couldnt play.