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Nashville Cubs
The Nashville Cubs were a Negro league baseball team that played in the minor league Negro Southern League from 1945 to 1951. The club was originally called the Nashville Black Vols, named after the all-white Nashville Vols of the minor league Southern Association, but changed to the Cubs moniker in 1946. They were located in Nashville, Tennessee, for the majority of their existence, but split part of the 1950 season between Nashville and Louisville, Kentucky Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ..., where they played as the Louisville Cubs. While in Nashville, they played their home games at Sulphur Dell. The Black Vols finished the 1945 season in fourth place with an 18–16 (.529) record. The 1949 team won the second half of the season. References {{Professional bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 In Baseball
Champions Major League Baseball *World Series: Detroit Tigers over Chicago Cubs (4-3) *All-Star Game cancelled due to flight restrictions. However, inter-league games were played during the All-Star break. Other champions *Amateur World Series: Venezuela *Negro League World Series: Cleveland Buckeyes over Homestead Grays (4-0) * Negro League Baseball All-Star Game: West, 9-6 *All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: Rockford Peaches Awards and honors *Baseball Hall of Fame **Roger Bresnahan **Dan Brouthers ** Fred Clarke **Jimmy Collins **Ed Delahanty **Hugh Duffy **Hughie Jennings **King Kelly ** Jim O'Rourke **Wilbert Robinson *Most Valuable Player **Hal Newhouser (AL) – P, Detroit Tigers **Phil Cavarretta (NL) – 1B, Chicago Cubs *The Sporting News Player of the Year Award **Hal Newhouser – P, Detroit Tigers *The Sporting News Most Valuable Player Award **Eddie Mayo (AL) – 2B, Detroit Tigers **Tommy Holmes (NL) – OF, Boston Braves *The Sporting News Pitcher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Negro League Baseball Teams ...
This list of Negro league baseball teams is split into two pages, one listing the major league Negro teams and one listing the minor league and traveling Negro teams. Some teams are included in both lists. *List of major Negro league baseball teams *List of minor Negro league baseball teams {{Set index article Negro league baseball teams Negro league baseball Negro league The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1951 Disestablishments In Tennessee
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 15 – In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment. * January 20 – Winter of Terror: Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time, in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. * January 21 – Mount Lamington in Papua New Guinea erupts catastrophically, killing nearly 3,000 people and causing great devastation in Oro Province. * January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of his children's novel ''Journey Through the Night'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
