The Louisville Black Caps were a professional

Negro league baseball 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 ...

team based in

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 ...

. The team played as the Black Caps in the Negro National League in 1930 before playing as the Louisville White Sox in 1931. In 1932, they joined the Negro Southern League, again playing as the Black Caps. Only five months into the season, the team relocated to play as the Columbus Turfs for the remaining month and a half before folding.

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