The Baseball Hall of Fame Remembers Roland Hemond
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum mourns the passing of 2011 Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Roland Hemond. October 26, 1929 – December 13, 2021.
In 1933, Greenlee, riding the popularity of his Crawfords, became the next man to start a Negro league. In February 1933, Greenlee and delegates from six other teams met at Greenlee's Crawford Grill to ratify the constitution of the National Organization of Professional Baseball Clubs. The name of the new league was the same as the old league Negro National League which had disbanded a year earlier in 1932. The members of the new league were the Pittsburgh Crawfords, Columbus Blue Birds, Indianapolis ABCs, Baltimore Black Sox, Brooklyn Royal Giants, Cole's American Giants (formerly the Chicago American Giants) and Nashville Elite Giants. Greenlee also came up with the idea to duplicate the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, except, unlike the big league method in which the sportswriters chose the players, the fans voted for the participants. The first game, known as the East-West All-Star Game, was held September 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago before a crowd of 20,000.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum mourns the passing of 2011 Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Roland Hemond. October 26, 1929 – December 13, 2021.
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