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1920-1931
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From 1910 until the mid-1930s, the most dominant team in black baseball. Evolved from the split of the Chicago Union Leland Giants into the Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants.
1920-1931
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The longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro leagues. The Monarchs had only one season in which they did not have a winning record and produced more major league players than any other Negro league franchise.
1930-1931
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Only five months into the inaugural NSL season, the team relocated to play as the Columbus Turfs for the remaining month and a half before folding.
1931-1931
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The team's origins lie in two local negro amateur baseball teams: the Nashville Maroons and the Elites. The Giants welcomed any competition, including white-only teams, but played independently of any leagues until the mid-1920s.
1920-1931
12
Founded in 1919, Detroit Stars immediately established themselves as one of the most powerful teams in the West. After the collapse of the NNL at the end of 1931, the team folded and were replaced by the Detroit Wolves of the East–West League
a.k.a. Stars
1920-1931 12 3
1920-1931 12 3
Competed independently from as early as 1906 to 1919, and then joined the Negro National League (NNL), winning three pennants in four years from 1928 to 1931.
1931-1931
1
Five years after the demise of the original Indianapolis ABCs, Negro league baseball came back to Indianapolis. Within a few years the Cole's American Giants moved their 1933 home games to Indianapolis, forcing the ABCs move the club to Detroit shortly after opening day.
a.k.a. Cuban Stars
1920-1930 11
1920-1930 11
Travelling known as the Cuban Stars of Havana, Stars of Cuba, Cuban All-Stars, Havana Reds, Almendares Blues or simply as the Cubans. By 1916, the team was known as the Cuban Stars (West)
1923-1930
8
Originally named the Barber College Baseball Club the team was never a titan of the Negro leagues like wealthier teams in northern cities of the United States, but sound management lead to a continuous thirty-nine years of operation, including five eventual major-leaguers, and two Hall of Famers.
1929-1930
2
The team's origins lie in two local negro amateur baseball teams: the Nashville Maroons and the Elites. The Giants welcomed any competition, including white-only teams, but played independently of any leagues until the mid-1920s.
1924-1930
7
Organized for the inaugural season of the Negro Southern League, jumping between the NSL and NNL as the team that featured the emergence of HOFer Satchel Paige.
1928-1928
1
One of many one-and-done Negro League Cleveland franchises over the years, they folded after finishing in 7th place in the NNL.
1927-1927
1
Franchise only survived a single season in the NNL before folding with a dismal record of 17-42.
1920-1926
7
Originally organized by the American Brewing Company in the early 20th century. By 1915, the ABCs were already challenging Rube Foster's Chicago American Giants for supremacy in black baseball.
1920-1926
7
As an independent team, and also as the only black team in the Ohio/Indiana, they played black and white teams all over the country throughout the 1910s. Local newspapers sometimes referred to the team as "Moses Moore's Marcos."
1926-1926
1
In their first year as a franchise, they failed to even complete the season.
1924-1924
1
Managed by HOF'er Sol White, the Browns lasted only one season before folding.
1922-1923
2
Played as an independent team from 1919 through 1921, and joined the Negro National League in 1922 where they finished last of eight clubs. The franchise folded a year later.
1923-1923
1
After the team disbanded, many of its better players transferred to the St. Louis Stars and Milwaukee Bears for the remainder of the season, in an effort to shore up both franchises.
1923-1923
1
Drew much of its personnel from the disbanded Keystones and New Orleans Crescent Stars. Primarily due to poor home attendance at Athletic Park, the club played most of its games on the road, and quickly faded from existence.
1922-1922
1
Founded by a Barbadian immigrant and pool hall operator. Their home field was Central Park, built by the prominent African American architect Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger, who would later design Greenlee Field for the Pittsburgh Crawfords.
1920-1921
2
Evolved from the split of the Chicago Union Leland Giants into the Chicago Giants and Chicago American Giants. They played as a travelling team, without a home field.
1921-1921
1
Sol White, a manager, player and journalist in African-American baseball history, served as coach and general adviser to the team. The team was not very successful, either on the field or at the box office, at season's end the franchise was dissolved.
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