The Indianapolis ABCs, later briefly the Detroit Stars, were a major

Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relativel ...

team that played in three different leagues in each of its three seasons in existence from 1931 through 1933.

Indianapolis ABCs

Five years after the demise of the original

Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fin ...

, Candy Jim Taylor brought Negro league baseball back to Indianapolis and organized a new franchise called the ABCs. They played in the original Negro National League's final season in 1931, when the league collapsed. They then joined the Negro Southern League for 1932. In 1933, Taylor brought the ABCs into Gus Greenlee's new Negro National League for its inaugural season. However, the Cole's American Giants moved their 1933 home games to Indianapolis (and to the ABCs home field) due to a lease dispute with their

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ballpark. Low attendance led Taylor to move the club to Detroit shortly after opening day.

Detroit Stars

In April 1933, shortly after opening day, the team shifted to

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and were renamed the Stars, the name of a former team in that city. The team lasted for the rest of the season before disbanding.

References

External links

Franchise history at Seamheads.com
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