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The Kansas City Giants were a professional Negro league baseball team, based in Kansas City, Kansas. From 1909 to 1911, the Kansas City Giants played as a member of the Western Independent Clubs. The Kansas City Giants played home games at Riverside Park. The Giants were a rival of the Kansas City, Missouri based Kansas City Royal Giants.
The Kansas City Giants were founded in 1909 by John W. "Bud" Fowler, a former star player in the white minor leagues. Fowler was a pioneer in the Negro leagues, and he helped to establish the Kansas City Giants as one of the top teams in the country. The Giants won the Western Independent Clubs championship in 1910 and 1911.
In early October 1911, the Giants played a three-game series against the Kansas City Blues of the American Association, with each team winning a game and the final game ending in a tie because of darkness. After the 1911 season, Kansas City Giants player Dee Williams was shot to death in Kansas City. In subsequent seasons the Kansas City Giants continued play, but as a semi-pro barnstorming level team with a depleted roster. The Kansas City Giants were paralleled in Kansas City negro leagues baseball by the Kansas City Royal Giants, who played from 1910 to 1912 in the Western Independent Clubs.
