The Negro League Teams
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The Teams
Houston Eagles - NAL 1949-1950, New Franchise, disbanded during season, Relocated from Newark Eagles
Pre Negro League Teams
Barnstormers & Traveling Teams
Keys to the Leagues ANL- American Negro League 1929. After the collapse of the ECL in the spring of 1928, the member teams reemerged in 1929 as the American Negro League.
IND - (I) Independent Club, no league affiliation.
LCBC - League of Colored Baseball Clubs; formed in 1887 and consisted of eight teams in Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Washington. The league is recognized as an official minor league and protected under baseball's National Agreement, but it folded 13 games into its only season.
MSL - Middle States League 1889, a mixed color league (reorganized as the Eastern Interstate League in 1890) had the New York Gorhams and the Cuban Giants as member clubs. Unfortunately the Eastern Interstate League died mid-season with the Cuban Giants resurfacing in the Connecticut State League. That league also folded (1891) and the Cuban Giants returned to independent status.
NAL- Negro American League 1937-1950
NNL- Negro National League 1920-1948
NSL- Negro Southern League 1932 - The Negro Southern League was the only major circuit to complete its schedule in 1932. The NSL was a minor league before and after the 1932 season.
NEWL - Negro East West League. Formed in 1932 and folded during its only season.
WCNBL- West Coast Negro Baseball League 1946 |
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TEAM ALPHA LIST: Algona Brownies of Iowa (IND) 1902-1903 All Nations Team (IND) 1912-1918 Argyle Hotel Athletics (IND) 1885 Atlanta Black Crackers (IND, NSL, NAL) 1938 Atlantic City Bacharach Giants (IND) 1916-1922, 1930-1933, (ECL) 1923-1928, (ANL) 1929, (NNL) 1934 Baltimore Black Sox (IND) 1916-1922, (ECL) 1923-1928, (ANL) 1929, (I) 1930-1931, (EWL) 1932, (NNL) 1933 1934 Baltimore Elite Giants (NNL) 1938-1948, (NAL) 1949-1950 Birminghham Black Barons (NNL) 1924-1925, 1927-1930, (NSL) 1926, 1931-1936, (NAL) 1937-1938, 1940-1950 Brooklyn Eagles (NNL) 1935 Brooklyn Royal Giants 1905-1942 (I) 1905-1922, 1934-1941, (ECL) 1923-1927, (NNL) 1933 Chicago American Giants 1911-1950 (IND) 1911-1919, 1936, (NNL) 1920-1931, 1933-1935, (NSL) 1932, (NAL) 1937-1950 Columbia Giants of Chicago (I) 1899-1900 Chicago Giants 1910-1921 Leland Giants (I) 1905-1910 Chicago Unions (I) 1888-1900 Chicago Union Giants (I) 1901-1904 Cincinnati Buckeyes (NAL) 1942 Cincinnati Clowns (NAL) 1943 Cincinnati-Indpls Clowns (NAL) 1944-1945 CincinnatiTigers 1934-1937 (I) 1934-1936, (NAL) 1937 Cleveland Bears (NAL) 1939-1940 Cleveland Browns (NNL) 1924 Cleveland Buckeyes (NAL) 1943-1948, 1950 Cleveland Cubs (NNL) 1931 Cleveland Elites (NNL) 1926 Cleveland Giants (NNL) 1933 Cleveland Hornets (NNL) 1927 Cleveland Red Sox (NNL) 1934 Cleveland Stars (EWL) 1932 Cleveland Tate Stars (NNL) 1922 Cleveland Tigers (NNL) 1928 Cole's American Giants 1932-1935 Columbia Giants (I) 1933 Columbus Blue Birds (NNL) 1899-1900 Columbus Buckeyess (NNL) 1921 Columbus Elite Giants (NNL) 1935 Cuban Giants 1885-1899 (I) 1885-1888, 1892-1899, (MSL) 1889-1890, (CSL) 1891 Cuban Stars (East) 1916-1929 (IND) 1916-1922, (ECL) 1923-1928, (ANL) 1929 Cuban Stars (West) 1907-1930 (IND) 1907-1919, (NNL) 1920-1930 Cuban X-Giants (I) 1897-1907 Dayton Marcos 1919-1926 (I) 1921-1925, (NNL) 1919,1926 Detroit Stars 1919-1931 (IND) 1919, (NNL) 1920-1931, 1933, (NAL) 1937 Detroit Wolves (EWL) 1932 Ethiopian Clowns (IND) Harlem Stars Harrisburg Giants 1922-1927 (IND) 1922-1923, (ECL) 1924-1927 Harrisburg-St.Louis Stars (NNL) 1943 Havana Red Sox (I) 1917 Havana Stars (I) 1917 Hilldale Daisies 1916-1932 (IND) 1916-1922, 1930-1931 (ECL) 1923-1928, (ANL) 1929, (EWL) 1932 Homestead Grays 1912-1950 (IND) 1912-1928,1930-1933,1949-1959, (ANL) 1929, (NNL) 1934-1938 Houston Eagles (NAL) 1949-1950 Indianapolis ABCs 1913-1926, 1931-1933, 1938-1939 (IND) 1913-1919, (NNL) 1920-1926,1931,1933, (NSL) 1932, (NAL) 1938-1939 Indianapolis Athletics (NAL) 1937 Indianapolis-Cincinnati Clowns (NAL) 1944 Indianapolis Clowns (NAL) 1943-1950 Indianapolis Crawfords (NAL) 1940 Jacksonville Red Caps (NNL) 1938, 1941-1942 Kansas City Kansas Giants (I) 1909-1915 Kansas City Monarchs 1920-1950 (NNL) 1920-1931, (I) 1932-1936, (NAL) 1937-1950 Little Rock Black Travelers (IND) Long Branch Cubans (I) 1915-1916 Louisville Black Caps (NSL) 1932 Louisville Black Colonels Louisville Buckeyes (NAL) 1949 Louisville White Sox (NNL) 1931 Memphis Red Sox 1923-1950 (IND) 1923, (NNL) 1924-1930, (NSL) 1926,1932, (NAL) 1936-1950 Miami Ethiopian Clowns (IND) Milwaukee Bears (NNL) 1923 Mohawk Giants (IND) 1913-1915 Mobile Black Bears (IND) Monroe Monarchs (NSL) 1932 Montgomery Grey Sox (NSL) 1932 Nashville Elite Giants 1921-1934 (IND) 1921-1925, (NSL) 1926-1929, 1932 (NNL) 1930, 1933-1934 New Orleans Eagles New Orleans-St.Louis Stars 1940-1941 (IND) 1940, (NAL) 1941 New York Black Yankees 1932-1950 (IND) 1932-1950, 1949-1959, (NAL) 1936-1948 New York Cubans 1935-1950 (NNL) 1935-1936, 1939-1948, (NAL) 1949-1950 New York Gorhams (I) 1887-1891 New York Harlem Stars (IND) New York Lincoln Giants 1911-1930 (IND) 1911-1922, 1927,1930, (ECL) 1923-1926, (ANL) 1929 New York Lincoln Stars (IND) 1914-1916 Newark Browns (EWL) 1932 Newark Dodgers 1933-1935 (IND) 1933, (NNL) 1934-1935 Newark Eagles (NNL) 1936-1948 Newark Stars (ECL) 1926 Page Fence Giants (I) 1894-1898 Philadelphia Giants (I) 1902-1916 Philadelphia Pythians (IND) Philadelphia Stars 1933-1950 (IND) 1933, (NNL) 1934-1948, (NAL) 1949-1950 Philadelphia Tigers (ECL) 1928 Pittsburgh Crawfords 1931-1938 (IND) 1931-1932, (NNL) 1933-1938 Pittsburgh Keystones (I) (LCBC) 1887 Pittsburgh Keystones (II) (NNL) 1922 St.Louis Giants 1909-1921 (IND) 1909-1919, (NNL) 1920-1921 St.Louis Stars (I) (NNL) 1922-1931 St.Louis Stars (II) 1937-1943 (NAL) 1937, 1939, 1941 (I) 1940 (NNL) 1943 St.Paul Gophers (I) 1909 Stars of Cuba (I) 1910 Toledo Crawfords (NAL) 1938 Toledo Tigers (NNL) 1923 Washington Black Senators (NNL) 1938 Washington Elite Giants (NNL) 1937-1938 Washington Pilots (EWL) 1932 Washington Potomacs 1923-1924 (IND) 1923, (ECL) 1924 Wilmington Potomacs (ECL) 1925 Zulu Cannibal Giants (I) 1934-1937 The remaining teams listed below may also have hosted colored players, played independently, or played against both Negro and White clubs: |
Atlanta Black Crackers 
Baltimore Black Sox
Baltimore Elite Giants
Birmingham Black Barons
Brooklyn Royal Giants
Chattanooga Black Lookouts
Chicago American Giants
Cincinatti Tigers
Cleveland Buckeyes
Dayton Marcos
Detroit
Detroit Wolves
Hilldale
Homestead Greys
Indianapolis ABC's
Indianapolis Clowns
Jacksonville Red Caps
Kansas City Monarchs
Memphis Red Sox
Montgomery Grey Sox
Newark Eagles
New York Black Yankees
New York Cubans
Nashville Elite Giants
Philadelphia Stars
Pittsburgh Crawfords
Saint Louis Stars
Seattle Steelheads
Washington/Wilmington Potomacs
Cuban Giants
Buffalo
Page Fence Giants
Cuban "X" Giants
Chicago Union Giants
Columbia Giants of Chicago
New York Lincoln Giants
Philadelphia Giants
Leland Giants
Royal Poinciana Team
1945 American All Stars
Ethiopian Clowns
Harlem Globe Trotters