Negro National League I (NNL1)
1925 NNL1 Season Overview

Leagues Negro League Baseball NNL1 1925 Season Overview

The 1925 Colored World Series was the second edition of the championship series in Negro league baseball. The series featured a rematch between the Hilldale Club of Darby, Pennsylvania, champion of the Eastern Colored League (ECL), and the Kansas City Monarchs, champion of the Negro National League (NNL) and winner of the previous year's match in the first Colored World Series. In 1925, Hilldale won the best-of-nine series, five games to one. On the eve of the series, the Monarchs' star pitcher, Bullet Rogan, who had pitched a shutout in the deciding Game 7 of the NNL championship series, was injured while playing with his child at home, when a needle ran into his leg, leaving him unable to play in the World Series. Kansas City's manager and occasional pitcher was future Hall of Famer, 38-year-old José Méndez. Hilldale featured three future Hall of Famers—catcher, Biz Mackey, third baseman, Judy Johnson, and 35-year-old backup catcher and pinch hitter, Louis Santop. Attendance for series was disappointing—down more than 50 percent in comparison with the previous year's series. The financial results were so disappointing that one Kansas City Monarchs player said they would have been paid better barnstorming than playing in the series. For both teams, the 1925 season would represent the end to a three-year run as league champions. (Both teams had won their league championships in 1923, when no world series was played.) Kansas City would eventually return to win additional championships, appearing in the 1942 and 1946 series and winning in 1942. For Hilldale, however, the 1925 championship would be its last, as the team folded in 1932.

Other negro baseball leagues in 1925:
ECL · Negro

1925 Kansas City Monarchs

1925 NNL1 Season
Kansas City Monarchs

8 teams competed during the regular season

Kansas City Monarchs defeated St. Louis Stars for the championship

League Note
The NNL split the season into two halves. Kansas City won the first half, St. Louis won the second half. The teams met at the end of the season in a best-of-9 playoff series to determine the Champion. The Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League faced each other in a Colored World Series at the end of the season to determine an overall champion.

League President

Rube Foster

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Larry Wayne Scofield says:

February 28, 2022 at 6:43 am

I sincerely appreciate the research work, and the information being shared. It is important and interesting history.

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