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The St. Paul Colored Gophers was a small club of black baseball players formed in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1907. [1] They were not a formal Negro league team, as the commonly referred-to "Negro leagues" were not created until 1920. However, like other barnstorming teams of the time, they put considerable pressure on the desegregation of baseball ...
Williams was born in Seguin, Texas.One of his parents was African American, and the other was a Comanche Native American. Williams grew up to become an outstanding pitcher, but as his path to the major leagues was barred by the color line, he spent his entire 27-year career (1905–1932) pitching in the Negro leagues, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
Bud Fowler (March 16, 1858 – February 26, 1913), born "John W. Jackson", was an American baseball player, manager, and club organizer. He is the earliest known African-American player in organized professional baseball. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022. Mayor Fran Grates of Frankfort, NY is the one who found out where Bud ...
The Philadelphia Pythians (also Pythian Base Ball Club, Pythian Baseball Club, or the "Pyths") [1] was one of the earliest Negro league baseball clubs, founded in 1865. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] African-American leaders Jacob C. White Jr. and Octavius V. Catto established the team.
Though the Boston Giants were never among the most nationally popular black semi-pro teams, Boston was a hotbed of black baseball in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1923, Negro league veteran Danny McClellan organized a team that had been playing as the Quaker Giants into a Boston-based contingent called, for marketing purposes, the Philadelphia Giants.
He returned to baseball to serve as secretary for the Columbus Buckeyes of the Negro National League in 1921, and helped bring in his old player, John Henry Lloyd, as player-manager. White then took on his last two managerial jobs, both in Cleveland: in 1922 he guided an independent club, the Fears Giants of Cleveland, and in 1924 he managed ...