The Texas Colored League was a minor league
Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926. The league did not play a schedule in 1922.
The league was revived three years later in 1929 as the Texas–Oklahoma–Louisiana League
and renamed the Texas–Louisiana Negro League for the 1930 and 1931 seasons.
Teams
1919–26
Teams listed alphabetically by city for the 1919–21 and 1923–26 seasons. Some teams may be the same franchise with a different name or location.
* Austin (1919–20)
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Austin Black Senators
The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas. The earliest known published reference to them came in April 1908, adopting the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The team started a ...
(1923–26)
* Beaumont (1919)
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Beaumont Black Oilers (1920–21, 1924)
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Beaumont Black Exporters (1923)
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Dallas Black Marines (1919, 1921)
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Dallas Black Giants
The Dallas Black Giants were professional and semi-professional baseball teams based in Dallas, Texas which played in the Negro leagues. They were active on and off from 1908 to 1949. Among the leagues that the Black Giants played for were the Texa ...
(1920, 1923–26)
* Fort Worth (1919)
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Fort Worth Black Panthers (1920–21, 1923–24)
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Fort Worth Wonders (1923)
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Dallas-Fort Worth Black Wonders (1925)
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Fort Worth Monarchs (1926)
* Galveston (1919)
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Galveston Black Pirates (1920)
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Galveston Black Sand Crabs (1921)
* Houston (1919)
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Houston Black Buffaloes (1920–21, 1924–26)
** (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1924–26)
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Monroe Southern Giants (1923)
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New Orleans Crescent Stars
The New Orleans Crescent Stars were an independent Negro league baseball club that existed from 1933 to 1934.
The New Orleans team helped produce several players as Pepper Bassett, Gene Bremer, Lloyd Davenport, Harry Else, Barney Morris, Tom P ...
(1923)
* New Orleans (1925)
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Oklahoma City Black Indians (1925)
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San Antonio Black Aces
The San Antonio Black Aces were a minor Negro league baseball team in the Texas Colored League
The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926. The league did not play a schedule in ...
(1919–20)
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San Antonio Black Bronchos (1923, 1925)
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San Antonio Porters (1924)
* San Antonio (1926)
*
Shreveport Giants The Shreveport Giants were a minor league baseball team based in Shreveport, Louisiana. The team played from 1901 to 1903 in the Southern Association. The team became the Shreveport Pirates in 1904.
References
Defunct Southern Association t ...
(1923)
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Shreveport Black Sports 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 team ...
(1926)
* Tulsa (OK) (1920)
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Tulsa Black Oilers (1923)
* Waco (1919)
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Waco Black Navigators (1920)
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Wichita Falls Black Spudders (1921)
* Wichita Falls (1926)
1929–31
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Dallas Black Giants
The Dallas Black Giants were professional and semi-professional baseball teams based in Dallas, Texas which played in the Negro leagues. They were active on and off from 1908 to 1949. Among the leagues that the Black Giants played for were the Texa ...
(1929–31)
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Fort Worth Black Panthers (1929)
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Houston Black Buffaloes (1929–31) (a.k.a. Black Buffalos 1929)
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Oklahoma City Black Indians (1929)
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San Antonio Black Indians (1929–31)
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Shreveport Black Sports 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 team ...
(1929, 1931)
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Tulsa Black Oilers (1929)
* Wichita Falls (1929)
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New Orleans Black Pelicans (1930–31)
* Port Arthur (1930)
* Waco (1930)
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Monroe Monarchs
The Monroe Monarchs were a professional baseball team based in Monroe, Louisiana, which played in the Negro leagues from the late 1920s to about 1935, mostly as a minor league team loosely associated with the Kansas City Monarchs. The team was cr ...
(1931)
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Galveston Black Buccaneers
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(1931)
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Fort Worth Black Cats
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(1931)
Champions
* 1919
San Antonio Black Aces
The San Antonio Black Aces were a minor Negro league baseball team in the Texas Colored League
The Texas Colored League was a minor league Negro baseball league organized in 1919 and lasted until 1926. The league did not play a schedule in ...
* 1920 Austin
* 1921
Houston Black Buffaloes
* 1923
Austin Black Senators
The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas. The earliest known published reference to them came in April 1908, adopting the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The team started a ...
* 1924
Austin Black Senators
The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas. The earliest known published reference to them came in April 1908, adopting the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The team started a ...
* 1925
Austin Black Senators
The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas. The earliest known published reference to them came in April 1908, adopting the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The team started a ...
* 1926
Austin Black Senators
The Austin Black Senators were a minor league Negro league baseball team based in Austin, Texas. The earliest known published reference to them came in April 1908, adopting the name of their white, Texas League counterparts. The team started a ...
* 1929 no information available
* 1930 last half of season not reported; possibly
Houston Black Buffaloes
* 1931
Monroe Monarchs
The Monroe Monarchs were a professional baseball team based in Monroe, Louisiana, which played in the Negro leagues from the late 1920s to about 1935, mostly as a minor league team loosely associated with the Kansas City Monarchs. The team was cr ...
References
External links
Center for Negro League Research
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Negro baseball leagues
Defunct baseball leagues in the United States
Baseball leagues in Louisiana
Baseball leagues in Oklahoma
Baseball leagues in Texas
Sports leagues established in 1919
Defunct minor baseball leagues in the United States
African-American history of Texas
African-American history of Oklahoma
African-American history of Louisiana