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a.k.a. Cuban Giants, Cuban Stars, Red Sox
1928-1936 9
1928-1936 9
The team began barnstorming around Miami in 1930 as Florida Cuban Giants. Joined the East–West League in 1932 as Pollock's Cuban Stars. The returned as an independent team moniker from 1933 until 1936.
1936-1936
1
Founded by the first U.S. african-american olympic gold medal winner, the short lived squad used Cincinnati Reds hand-me-down uniforms and played at Crosley Field
1905-1936
32
One of the prominent independent teams prior to World War I before organized league play began. Fell into decline after joining the Eastern Colored League, then returning to independent status as a mostly semi-pro squad.
1916-1936
21
An independent team that played in the New York and northeast region of the United States. Because of their ties to the region they were also referred to as the New York Cuban Stars.
1911-1936
26
From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the most dominant team in black baseball. Evolved from the split of the Chicago Union Leland Giants into the Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants.
1932-1936
5
The longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. The Monarchs had only one season in which they did not have a winning record and produced more major league players than any other Negro league franchise.
a.k.a. Black Crackers, Grey Sox
1919-1936 18
1919-1936 18
Founded as the Atlanta Cubs and changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name as a play on the local white league team, the Atlanta Crackers
1920-1936
17
Organized for the inaugural season of the Negro Southern League, jumping between the NSL and NNL as the team that featured the emergence of HOFer Satchel Paige.
1932-1936
5
White promoter Harry Passon organized a new Bacharach team based in Philadelphia. The club eventually joined Gus Greenlee's new Negro National League in 1934 but returned to independent baseball in 1935.
a.k.a. Black Yankees, Stars
1931-1935 5
1931-1935 5
The team was founded as the Harlem Black Bombers in 1931 by financier James "Soldier Boy" Semler and dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. By 1932 the team was named the Harlem Stars and by 1933 became the New York Black Yankees.
1912-1934
23
Formed by Cumberland Posey, and remained in continuous operation for 38 seasons. Played home games in Pittsburgh at Forbes Field and Greenlee Field. In the 1940s they began splitting home games between Pittsburgh and Washington D.C.
1933-1933
1
Owned in part by sports promoter Eddie Gottlieb who also owned the Philadelphia Sphas and Philadelphia Warriors basketball teams. Gottlieb was also the booking agent for all the Negro league teams in the Northeast, taking 10% of all receipts
1931-1932
2
Members of the short-lived and mysterious USNL developed by Branch Rickey prior to integration of blacks in baseball.
1913-1931
19
Started as an independent team in 1913, gained large success with many stars while it hopped around to four other leageues in it's remaning years before folding.
1916-1931
16
Established as a boys team in 1910, developed by their owner to be one of the powerhouse Negro league baseball teams in the mid 1920s. Folded along with many clubs during the Great Depression
1911-1930
20
Founded as the first colored pro team in the west. and were the dominant team in 1911, 1912 and 1913, winning the eastern championship each year. In 1914, the owner lost control of the Lincoln Giants name, and formed a rival team, the Lincoln Stars.
1918-1929
12
As an independent team, and also as the only black team in the Ohio/Indiana, they played black and white teams all over the country throughout the 1910s. Local newspapers sometimes referred to the team as "Moses Moore's Marcos."
a.k.a. Elite Giants
1920-1928 9
1920-1928 9
The team's origins lie in two local negro amateur baseball teams: the Nashville Maroons and the Elites. The Giants welcomed any competition, including white-only teams, but played independently of any leagues until the mid-1920s.
1921-1926
6
Originally named the Barber College Baseball Club the team was never a titan of the Negro leagues like wealthier teams in northern cities of the United States, but sound management lead to a continuous thirty-nine years of operation, including five eventual major-leaguers, and two Hall of Famers.
1912-1925
14
Included players of several nationalities, including blacks and whites, Indians, Hawaiians, Japanese and Latin Americans
1922-1923
2
Known primarily for their hitting with HOF'er Oscar Charleston, triple-crown winning Heavy Johnson, and well-known pro basketball player Fats Jenkins. Never able to finish much better than average in the ECL, the club dropped to play an independent schedule, and lost its best players to other teams.
1923-1923
1
Based in Washington, D.C. in the ECL, they also operated as an independent team briefly. The Potomacs moved to Wilmington, Delaware where they played as the Wilmington Potomacs. In 1925 the team folded, unable to complete the season.
1919-1923
5
Played as an independent team from 1919 through 1921, and joined the Negro National League in 1922 where they finished last of eight clubs. The franchise folded a year later.
1916-1922
7
Founded when two African-American politicians moved the Duval Giants of Jacksonville, Florida, to Atlantic City in 1916 and renamed them after Harry Bacharach, the city's mayor.
a.k.a. ABCs
1916-1922 7
1916-1922 7
Negro league team that split off from the Indianapolis ABCs during an ownership dispute
1921-1921
1
Founded by a Barbadian immigrant and pool hall operator. Their home field was Central Park, built by the prominent African American architect Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger, who would later design Greenlee Field for the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
1906-1919
14
Travelling known as the Cuban Stars of Havana, Stars of Cuba, Cuban All-Stars, Havana Reds, Almendares Blues or simply as the Cubans. By 1916, the team was known as the Cuban Stars (West)
1910-1919
10
Evolved from the split of the Chicago Union Leland Giants into the Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants. They played as a travelling team, without a home field.
1907-1919
13
Originally organized by the American Brewing Company in the early 20th century. By 1915, the ABCs were already challenging Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants for supremacy in black baseball.
1919-1919
1
Founded in 1919, Detroit Stars immediately established themselves as one of the most powerful teams in the West. After the collapse of the NNL at the end of 1931, the team folded and were replaced by the Detroit Wolves of the East–West League
1911-1919
9
Competed independently from as early as 1906 to 1919, and then joined the Negro National League (NNL), winning three pennants in four years from 1928 to 1931.
1914-1917
4
Although they lasted less than four years, they were a good team that featured three players who would later be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame—Oscar Charleston, John Henry Lloyd, and Louis Santop.
1906-1917
12
Also known as the Boston Giants and Boston Colored Giants, they were often marketed as the Quaker Giants and Philadelphia Giants. The team mostly served as a farm team of sorts for the league.
1894-1917
24
One of only two Negro teams to survive the U.S. political and economic crisis in 1893. Many players were hired away by 1901 to form the Chicago Leland Giants.
1907-1916
10
Small club of black baseball players formed in St. Paul, Minnesota. Like other barnstorming teams of the time, they put considerable pressure on the desegregation of baseball.
1915-1916
2
Sunday baseball was not yet legal under blue laws in New York City, so major league teams often traveled to the seaside resort community of Long Branch to play Sunday games against the Cubans.
1886-1915
30
The all-black team achieved victory over so many of the nearby amateur "white" teams that they attracted the attention of a promoter who clandestinely named them the "Cuban Giants". The team remained one of the premier Negro league teams for nearly 20 years.
1910-1915
6
They often frequented baseball diamonds near the West Baden Springs Hotel. Their name derived from a bottled water produced at the Hotel which bordered on a local salt lick and mineral spring. The product was labeled as "Sprudel Water"
1912-1914
3
Based at the French Lick Springs Hotel in Indiana, and their name derived from a bottled water produced at the Hotel. The Hotel bordered on a local salt lick and mineral spring and the minerals from the spring made the water act as an effective and marketable natural laxative.
1910-1912
3
Played as a member of the Western Independent Clubs, along with their local rival, the Kansas City Giants before continuing as a semi-pro club into the 1920s.
1908-1911
4
Many researchers do not consider the Keystones a "formal" Negro league team. However, like other barnstorming teams of the time, they had considerable impact on the desegregation of baseball.
1902-1911
10
From 1904 to 1909 they were one of the strongest teams in black baseball, winning five eastern championships in six years. Disbanded during the 1911 season, forced by player defections across North, South, East, and West versions of Philadelphia Giants
1905-1911
7
Formed via the merger of Chicago Unions and Chicago Columbia Giants in 1901. Split in 1910 to form Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants
1909-1911
3
Founded by negro league pioneer Bud Fowler, dominated the Western Independent Clubs circuit.
1904-1909
6
The Giants were the first black professional baseball team in the city of Birmingham, Alabama
1909-1909
1
A small club of black baseball players formed in Buxton, Iowa running from approximately 1907 to 1920
1907-1909
3
The San Antonio Black Bronchos were a Negro league baseball team, based in San Antonio, Texas, that played from 1907 to 1909. Future Hall of Famer Smokey Joe Williams played for the team.
1896-1906
11
Originally most of the players were former Cuban Giants, hence "ex-Giants". Similarly, the original players were not actually Cuban, but used that moniker to distract from the all-black roster which had negative connotations at the time.
1906-1906
1
Short lived franchise that replaced the Cuban Stars at the midway point of the season in the International League
1906-1906
1
The Havana Stars played one season in 1906, managed and owned by Alfredo Pastor. They finished in 6th place in the Eastern Independent Club League with a 4-6-1 record....
1899-1905
7
The team was the first Latin American professional baseball team to tour the United States, playing against white semiprofessional and Negro league teams.
1901-1904
4
Formed via the merger of Chicago Unions and Chicago Columbia Giants in 1901. Split in 1910 to form Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants
1902-1903
2
Consisted of players that left the Union Giants and defunct Chicago Unions franchise
1899-1902
4
One of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. The 1898 tour was the club's last, as the team morphed into the new Columbia Giants in Chicago.
1895-1898
4
One of the nation's top teams in the Negro leagues. The 1898 tour was the club's last, as the team morphed into the new Columbia Giants in Chicago.
1886-1893
8
During their short existence the Gorhams grew to be one of the most successful black professional clubs in the country and challenged the supremacy of the Cuban Giants.
1888-1889
2
In 1888, the Cuban Giants and their arch-rivals, the New York Gorhams, formed a traveling team, the Colored All Americans.
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