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1927 Colored World Series
The 1927 Colored World Series was the championship tournament for the 1927 season of Negro league baseball. It was the fourth overall Series played. It matched the Chicago American Giants, champions of the Negro National League (1920–1931) and the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey, champions of the Eastern Colored League. The Giants won the series five games to three (with one tie). The two teams had faced a year earlier in the 1926 Colored World Series with the same result. This time around, it was Chicago that had to hold back a comeback, since they had won the first four games (all played in Chicago) and needed just one more to clinch the Series. They proceeded to lose three of the next four while tying Game 6, which meant that there could have been a Game 10 if Chicago did not win in Atlantic City. They prevailed 11-4 in Game 9 to prevail and win their second straight title. It was the last Negro World Series played for fifteen years. In Game 5, Luther Farrell o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago American Giants
The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Foster, they were charter members of Foster's Negro National League. The American Giants won five pennants in that league, along with another pennant in the 1932 Negro Southern League and a second-half championship in Gus Greenlee's Negro National League in 1934. Founding In 1910, Foster, captain of the Chicago Leland Giants, wrestled legal control of the name "Leland Giants" away from the team's owner, Frank Leland. That season, featuring Hall of Fame shortstop John Henry Lloyd, outfielder Pete Hill, second baseman Grant Johnson, catcher Bruce Petway, and pitcher Frank Wickware, the Leland Giants reportedly won 123 games while losing only 6. In 1911, Foster renamed the club the "American Giants". Franchise continuum DateForma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Black Barons
The Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960. They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, with the white Birmingham Barons, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press. Founding Drawing largely from a successful American Cast Iron Pipe Company Industrial League team, the Black Barons were organized in 1920 for the inaugural season of Rube Foster's Negro Southern League, which operated mainly as a minor league. They played in that league for three years before making the leap to the larger Negro National League, which operated as a major league. They were unable to keep their position due to irregularities with the team finances and returned to the Southern League for three more years. Their return to the National League in 1927 was marked by the emergence of star pitcher Satchel Paige, who led the Black Barons to the second half pennant. They lost the Negro National League title to the Chicago Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanford Jackson (baseball)
Sanford Jackson (January 10, 1900 – April 17, 1984) was an American Negro league baseball player. Contemporary newspapers often referred to him as Stanford Jackson. He played for the Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox, and Chicago American Giants from 1923 to 1931. He was part of the Chicago American Giants teams that won the 1926 and 1927 Colored World Series The 1927 Colored World Series was the championship tournament for the 1927 season of Negro league baseball. It was the fourth overall Series played. It matched the Chicago American Giants, champions of the Negro National League (1920–1931) and t .... baseball-reference.com. Retrieved June 14, 2012. References Exter ...
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Ambrose Reid
Ambrose Leevolio Reid (December 3, 1898 – April 7, 1966) was an American Negro league outfielder in the 1920s and 1930s. A native of Eatonton, Georgia, Reid made his Negro leagues debut in 1920 with the Atlanta Black Crackers. His career spanned 13 seasons, most of which were spent with the Bacharach Giants. In 1931, Reid was having a very productive season for the Homestead Grays before joining the Pittsburgh Crawfords mid-season. He finished his career where he began, with the Atlanta Black Crackers in 1932. Reid died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ... in 1966 at age 67. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads 1898 births 1966 deaths Atlanta Black Crackers players Bacharach Giants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clarence Smith (baseball)
Clarence "Scally" Smith was a baseball player in the Negro leagues. He would play infielder and outfielder and played from 1921 to 1933. Smith also managed the Birmingham Black Barons The Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960. They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, with the white Birmingham Barons, usually drawing larger crowds and equal pr ... from 1929 to 1930. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads* anSeamheads Columbus Buckeyes players Baltimore Black Sox players [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Lewis (baseball)
Milton Lewis, nicknamed "Red", was a Negro league second baseman in the 1920s. Lewis made his Negro leagues debut in 1922, spending time with the Richmond Giants, Harrisburg Giants and Bacharach Giants. He stayed with the Bacharach Giants until his release in April 1925. After spending time with the Wilmington Potomacs in 1925, he returned to the Bacharach Giants in 1926 and knocked a home run and eight hits for the club in their 1927 Colored World Series loss to the Chicago American Giants. Lewis finished his career in 1928 with the Lincoln Giants The Lincoln Giants were a Negro league baseball team based in New York City from 1911 through 1930. Founding The Lincoln Giants can trace their origins back to the Nebraska Indians, of Lincoln, Nebraska, from the 1890s. According to Sol White, .... References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads Place of birth missing Place of death missing Year of birth missing Year of death missing B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Brown (catcher)
James R. Brown (San Marcos, Texas on May 16, 1892 – January 21, 1943) was an American baseball catcher and first baseman in the Negro leagues. He played from 1920 to 1935, playing mostly with the Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Fo .... Brown died after being thrown out of a car, breaking his neck. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads* 1892 births 1943 deaths Chicago American Giants players Louisville Black Caps players Baseball players from Texas Sportspeople from San Marcos, Texas 20th-century African-American sportspeople Baseball catchers {{Negro-league-baseball-catcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago Defender
''The Chicago Defender'' is a Chicago-based online African-American newspaper. It was founded in 1905 by Robert S. Abbott and was once considered the "most important" newspaper of its kind. Abbott's newspaper reported and campaigned against Jim Crow-era violence and urged black people in the American South to settle in the north in what became the Great Migration. Abbott worked out an informal distribution system with Pullman porters who surreptitiously (and sometimes against southern state laws and mores) took his paper by rail far beyond Chicago, especially to African American readers in the southern United States. Under his nephew and chosen successor, John H. Sengstacke, the paper dealt with racial segregation in the United States, especially in the U.S. military, during World War II. Copies of the paper were passed along in communities, and it is estimated that at its most successful, each copy was read by four to five people. In 1919–1922, the ''Defender'' attracted t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Webster McDonald
Webster "Mac" McDonald (January 1, 1900 – June 12, 1982) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played from 1920 to 1940 with several teams. In the 1928 to 1930 seasons, McDonald was scouted by and went to play for a white team in Minnesota, where he was often the only African American player on the team. Joining him in later seasons were Negro league players Hooks Foreman, and Dave Brown. At age 52, McDonald received votes listing him on the 1952 ''Pittsburgh Courier The ''Pittsburgh Courier'' was an African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1907 until October 22, 1966. By the 1930s, the ''Courier'' was one of the leading black newspapers in the United States. It was acqu ...'' player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harney (baseball)
George Arthur Harney (June 1, 1890 – May 5, 1959) was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played from 1923 to 1931 with the Chicago American Giants. Harney pitched for Gilkerson's Union Giants in 1922 before joining the Chicago American Giants The Chicago American Giants were a Chicago-based Negro league baseball team. From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the American Giants were the most dominant team in black baseball. Owned and managed from 1911 to 1926 by player-manager Andrew "Rube" Fo ... in April 1923. He remained with the American Giants through 1931. References External links anSeamheads 1890 births Chicago American Giants players Baseball players from Alabama 1959 deaths Sportspeople from Bessemer, Alabama Baseball players from Chicago 20th-century African-American sportspeople Baseball pitchers {{Negro-league-baseball-pitcher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hubert Lockhart
George Hubert Lockhart (January 25, 1899 – May 23, 1968), sometimes listed as "Joe", was an American Negro league pitcher in the 1920s. A native of Flowery Branch, Georgia, Lockhart attended Talladega College. In 1923, he pitched for collegiate no-hitters. He made his Negro leagues debut in 1923 with the Bacharach Giants. He played six seasons for the club, and made appearances in the 1926 and 1927 Colored World Series. Lockhart finished his career in 1929 with the Chicago American Giants. Lockhart was a physical education teacher and coached multiple sports at Alabama State College for more than 40 years. He died in Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Named for the Irish soldier Richard Montgomery, it stands beside the Alabama River, on the coastal Plain of the Gulf of Mexico. In the 202 ... in 1968. He was inducted into the Alabama High School Athletic Association Hall of Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jesse Hubbard
Jesse Hubbard (born September 18, 1975) is a former professional lacrosse player who played professional box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League (NLL) and professional field lacrosse in the Major League Lacrosse (MLL). Background Hubbard starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1995 through 1998, where he earned Ivy League Player of the Year, Ivy League Rookie of the Year, three All-American recognitions from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), four Ivy League championships, and three national championships. He holds Princeton's lacrosse scoring records for both career and single-season goals. In high school, he had set the Interstate Athletic Conference (IAC) scoring record, while playing for St. Albans School and becoming ''The Washington Post'' boys' lacrosse player of the year. As a professional, he was the MLL's leading goal scorer for its first three seasons and its all-time goal leader as recently as the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
