The Oakland Larks were a
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 in the
West Coast Negro Baseball League
The West Coast Negro Baseball Association (WCNBA) was one of the several Negro baseball leagues created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The WCNBA was organized as a minor league in 1946 by Abe Saperstein and Jesse Owens as a mea ...
, based in
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
, in 1946.
Pitchers
Lionel Wilson, who went on to be Oakland's first African American mayor,
and
Sam Jones, who won 102 games in the Major Leagues, both played for the Larks.
References
African-American history in Oakland, California
Negro league baseball teams
Sports teams in Oakland, California
Defunct baseball teams in California
Baseball teams disestablished in 1946
Baseball teams established in 1946
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