The New Orleans Black Pelicans were a minor
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 that played in the first
Negro Southern League and were based in
,
Louisiana
Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...
. They were formed in 1926 to replace the
New Orleans Ads in the league and played at
Pelican Stadium
Pelican Stadium, originally known as Heinemann Park (1915–1937), was a sports stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1915 to 1957.
Heinemann Park namesake
Alexander Julius (A.J.) Heinemann was an officer and shareholder in the New Orleans Peli ...
.
They joined the
Texas-Louisiana Negro League in 1930, and by 1935 they were an independent club.
When the second Negro Southern League formed in 1945, the Black Pelicans were charter members,
but did not affiliate with the league again until 1950.
References
Negro league baseball teams
Baseball teams in New Orleans
1926 establishments in Louisiana
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